Black Christians’ competing solidarities with Israelis and Palestinians

Divergent biblical interpretations and shared histories lead to different answers to the same question: Who are “the oppressed”?

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Black Christians’ competing solidarities with Israelis and Palestinians

Divergent biblical interpretations and shared histories lead to different answers to the same question: Who are “the oppressed”?

A poet’s quarrel with herself

Danielle Chapman’s lustrous memoir is at its best when she holds her family’s Confederate history up to the light.

Episode 43: Educator and podcaster Sharon McMahon, author of The Small and the Mighty

A conversation with Sharon McMahon about Alexander Hamilton, enslavement, Quakers, and more

Vegetables that are fearfully and wonderfully made

My friend left me his CSA share for two weeks. It changed the way I look at labor.

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Black Christians’ competing solidarities with Israelis and Palestinians

Divergent biblical interpretations and shared histories lead to different answers to the same question: Who are “the oppressed”?

Vegetables that are fearfully and wonderfully made

My friend left me his CSA share for two weeks. It changed the way I look at labor.

A Lincoln parable

Civil War historian Allen Guelzo documents Lincoln’s faith—not in God but in the American experiment.

Against killing children

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.