racism

It is admirable that Bonhoeffer endeavors to highlight Black life. But one must be careful that the Black life of one’s representation is not playing in the dark of caricatured Black people. 

Greg Jarrell explores how one congregation in his city took advantage of racist urban renewal policies.

Equity requires people with power giving some of it up. What if we applied this principle to young adult ministry?

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

Mark Santow’s intellectual biography of the influential organizer explores how his Chicago coalitions wrestled with the challenges of race.

Historian Magda Teter identifies an endemic rot at the center of Christianity.

What may have been obvious to Thomas Jefferson was probably not obvious to those he enslaved.

Patricia Ventura and Edward Chan interrogate the ongoing enabling relationship between White supremacy and neoliberalism.

Greg Garrett provides a road map for the terrain of the prophetic writer’s work and thought.

Antonia Hylton digs into the history of a Maryland asylum that forced its Black patients to build their own facilities.

My church wanted to participate in our city’s reparations efforts. We began in our archives.

Paul Harding’s evocative novel begins with the 1815 hurricane off the New England coast.

To understand this, I had to stop reading John Muir and turn to the nature writing of the Harlem Renaissance.

Ethicist Larry Rasmussen tells his grandchildren the truth about the earth’s peril—and calls them to embrace its beauty.

A conversation with Robert P. Jones about the Doctrine of Discovery, the 1920 lynching of three Black men, the entitlement behind European chosenness, and more

Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu takes a hammer to true-to-life events and then puts the pieces back together again.

Dollie Burwell and Hazel Johnson have been under-recognized in environmental studies—and relegated to mere footnotes in church history.

The Century, like the Smithsonian, once supported eugenics.