racism
What kind of justice did Derek Chauvin’s trial achieve?
The verdict of a court is not the final verdict of a society.
Episode 5: Embodied and boundless | A conversation with Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
“Practicing to be a contemplative," says Zen priest Sensei Zenju, "you’re learning to be embodied and to be boundless at the same time.”
A civil rights pilgrimage through the eyes of Congolese refugee teenagers
We began to understand why James Baldwin called US history “more beautiful and more terrible than anyone has ever said about it.”
Episode 4: Becoming a truth teller | A conversation with Sophfronia Scott
In the private journals of contemplative thinker Thomas Merton, Sophronia Scott found guidance for how to live in these fraught times.
Donna Haskins defeats the devil
Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s book about a Black woman’s life is a model of ethnographic work that centers the voice of its subject.
A Black scholar’s challenge to White evangelicals
Anthea Butler is clear about the disastrous legacy of racism at the heart of White evangelicalism.
Is privilege real or imagined?
Sociologist Matthew Clair explores race and class at work in the criminal court system.
I want to talk to Thomas Merton about race
Merton has been my spiritual companion, but as a Black woman, I have questions for him.
What does the Mississippi Delta sound like in verse?
Philip Kolin’s poetry is about juke joints, bluesmen, mosquitoes, ladybugs, race, faith, and more.
Robert P. Jones says it’s past time to reckon with Christianity’s role in White supremacy
White Too Long envisions the hope that could follow recognition and repentance.
Shattering the myth of the first Thanksgiving
The Wampanoags shared the gifts of the land. The colonists responded with greed and ingratitude.
Reparations would help close the staggering racial wealth gap
William Darity and Kirsten Mullen make the case for finally addressing a great wrong.
The Asian American Christian Collaborative’s efforts to confront anti-Asian racism in the church
The pandemic has made an existing problem worse.
I was afraid to protest in Kenosha, but my parishioner needed me
The city felt like it had been sucker punched.
Danusha Laméris’s new book is filled with small kindnesses
A luminous poetry collection marked by joy and sorrow, humor and truth.
Eddie Glaude revisits James Baldwin’s America
Begin Again’s call to repentance is, like Baldwin’s own language, substantially Christian.
Yaa Gyasi’s beautiful novel embraces faith that changes and grows
Transcendent Kingdom explores an immigrant neuroscientist’s complicated relationship with evangelical Christianity.
Take & Read: American religious history
Four new books that explore Black Americans’ religious witness