A Priest-Educator’s Response to Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard By Brandt Montgomery The United States Supreme Court recently released a landmark decision concerning affirmative action in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. The... Read More...
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...
Not Critical Race Theory, Just American History By Ronald A. Wells Back in June, Eugene Schlesinger, the editor of Covenant, wrote a fine essay that raised questions about “Critical Race Theory” (CRT). He asked good questions about a phenomenon that many people evoke but about which they often know littl... Read More...
After Whiteness…Where Do We Go From Here? After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging By Willie James Jennings Eerdmans, pp. 175. $19.99 Review by Joseph Dewey Theology is caught more than taught. The potency of proclamation is only as powerf... Read More...
Virtue Signaling By Charlie Clauss One of the many terms that seem to have sprung up in our current cultural moment is the pejorative “virtue signaling.” In the mouth of most speakers, it seems to mean a type of speech or ac... Read More...
Critical Race Theory: Understanding the Real Threat By Eugene R. Schlesinger A bit over a year ago, America watched a man be murdered by the police. George Floyd’s murder was preceded, of course, by the death of Breonna Taylor at the hands of the police, and the hunting down and killing of Ahmaud Arbery by a... Read More...
What’s Lust Got To Do With It?: When “Sex Fixation” and Racial Bias Meet By Pamela A. Lewis Let China sleep, for when she awakens the world will tremble. Although there has been disagreement as to whether Napoleon Bonaparte made this statement, it was often cited to describe the e... Read More...
On Apocalyptic Mobs By Mark Perkins “He who holds to the truth holds to God.” — Romano Guardini A mob is an apocalypse, a conflagration casting fiery light on what was previously in shadow. On August 12, 2017, we watched sc... Read More...
