black church
I want more for Deesha Philyaw’s church ladies
I want a sequel where they don’t have to hide their sexuality.
Black churches address vaccine hesitancy
Helping a community navigate historical concerns
Henry Louis Gates celebrates the Black church through history and stories
The companion book to the PBS series is accessible, comprehensive, and joyful.
A conversation with the producer/director of the PBS documentary The Black Church
Century community engagement editor Katara Patton interviews Stacey L. Holman
Seeing Black people in scripture
Esau McCaulley’s book reclaims what the Black church has always known.
The Black Church Food Security Network aims to heal the land and heal the soul
“Food charity is a sweet siren song. It is not a sustainable track toward the Beloved Community.”
Amy Frykholm interviews Heber Brown III
Take & Read: American religious history
Four new books that explore Black Americans’ religious witness
I don’t forgive the man who murdered my cousin DePayne at Mother Emanuel
To insist on a narrative of forgiveness is dehumanizing and violent. It goes against the very nature of lament.
Wearing down structural evil with the ministry of erosion
During the pandemic, our church’s justice work has gone online.
Caught up in God
Early on, I got caught up in the logic of the Spirit—and in the steady beat of black life.
Lift every voice and sing
With white supremacists surrounding the University of Virginia, what is our role?
True Christianity in the midst of American shock
A brief black and Anabaptist account
When black women lead
A century before Alicia Garza came Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Violet Johnson, and Florence Spearing Randolph.
White supremacy in American Christianity
Christianity isn’t inherently white supremacist. But Christian faith in America has been interpreted in a way that upholds the tenets of white supremacy, which is built on 18th and 19th century Western hegemonic values. These cultural values, which have been intertwined into mainline American Christianity, protect and uphold the system of white supremacy.
“All men are created equal,” claims the Declaration of Independence.
The black social gospel
In American history, some lives have mattered; others have not. That difference fundamentally has been a racial one.
by Paul Harvey