racism

Affirmative action is important. It’s also based on a lie.

A conversation with Bill McKibben about climate change, the wealth gap, spiritual formation, and more

Sixty years after the March on Washington, we don’t talk much about how nervous it made White people.

Isaac Sharp traces the story of the groups that find themselves outside, pushed there by the conservative White men standing guard.

A conversation with Terence Lester about implicit bias, God as Justice, critical race theory, and more

Anne Blue Wills highlights the complexity of a woman convinced by her Christian culture that she was created by God to support her husband. 

The expulsion of Justin Jones and Justin Pearson recalls the Original 33, expelled by Georgia’s anti-Reconstruction White majority in 1868.

King’s letter is so soaked in US history that 60 years later we almost forget it was addressed not to the nation but to specific Christian pastors.

Privileged progressives have turned their attention from structures and systems to sentimentalism.

A conversation with ethicist Reggie Williams about Bonhoeffer, Black Jesus, racism, and more

Brandan Robertson grounds his discussion of Christians and privilege in the kenosis hymn of Philippians 2.

Eve Fairbanks traces the experiences of three South Africans to diagnose the country’s unrealized promises.

Police violence against Black citizens is written into the script of American culture.

I approached the project’s new anthology with some skepticism. Its contents quickly dispelled my doubts.

A conversation with activist and filmmaker Otis Moss III about his film Otis’ Dream, retribution, spirituality, and more

While struggling with this question as a church songwriter, I came up with six guidelines.

He wrote to free the heart from hatred and despair.

Jonathan Augustine starts where Barth left off, moving from salvific reconciliation to social reconciliation.

Randal Jelks and Shaka Senghor both write with realism but not fatalism.

A conversation with activist and New York Times bestselling author Jemar Tisby about racism, the concept of race, how to work for racial justice, and more