The Next Two Theologies
By Anthony Baker
In the summer of 2020, while city streets around the world were flooded with Black Lives Matter demonstrations, British theologian John Milbank offered a brief Twitter screed against “themed... Read More...
How to Be an Angry Christian, According to Thomas Aquinas
By Stewart Clem
People are angry. Given everything that’s happened in 2020, combined with the unlimited opportunities created by the internet for expressing our anger, this might be the angriest year in all ... Read More...
“Past its Teeming Time”: Lessons from Colonial Barbados about Environmental Racism
By Mark Clavier
When John Atkins, a British royal navy surgeon, visited Barbados in 1722, he was astonished by what he found. He had heard about the wealth and fertility of the island, then a leading producer of sugar in the British Empire. Instead, he saw ... Read More...
On Justice
By Daniel Martins
The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers on May 25 triggered an explosive response across the nation (and beyond) that has riveted attention on the issue of racism —... Read More...
Blood of the Black Christ, Shed for All
By Christopher Wells
All right, I was colored. It was fine. I did not know enough to be afraid or to anticipate in a concrete manner. True, I had heard that colored people were killed and beaten, but so far it... Read More...
Yearning To Breathe Free: A Reflection On the Murder of George Floyd
By Pamela A. Lewis
"It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate."
— James Baldwin
America has been and is a place of irreconcil... Read More...
Driving while black: On transformative police encounters
We need to have a national conversation about the treatment of African Americans at the hands of the police.
A church that loves the prophets
Are the prophets merely the forerunners of the non-profits, God’s agents of social improvement in the lives of those who need it most?