Is white Christian nationalism a distortion of Christianity?
We assume there are no ancient precedents for Christian bigotry.
Jesus and punishment
Dominique DuBois Gilliard's Rethinking Incarceration is the perfect addition to a larger conversation about mass incarceration.
Joey Bada$$ among the theological rappers
This kid from Brooklyn is storming the gates of heaven.
The deficit doesn't matter
Thinking morally about the economy with Stephanie Kelton
The Reactionary Option: Musings on the decline of western civilization
As long as people of color, queer people, and women remain an afterthought in these debates about modernity, our lives and deaths will not matter even as the fate of the world is discussed.
How King’s political vision became politically irrelevant
Niebuhr’s political realism won, but it’s King’s radical politics that we need in this neoliberal, neofascist era.
Fascism can't be stopped by fact-checking
Confronting Trump's political project
Would Jesus be deported from the United States?
The larger context to this question might actually surprise you.
When liberation theology failed
How a blunder in Argentina can teach us today.
Whose blog? Which practicality?
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No, the Democratic Party is (still) not the party of God (guest post)
In an effort to triumph over the religious right, many progressive Christians have married their faith and politics to the Democratic Party, leaving little to no gap between their political visions and the party’s policies. Instead of celebrating this as a successful strategy for re-ascendency, I see it compromising radical Christian commitments to peace and justice.
John's prologue and God's rejected children
Nevertheless, I think that John’s prologue has much more to say. In speaking about this Word become flesh, it also speaks powerfully to us about what it means to be human. Over the years, I kept returning to a few verses that changed the way that I saw the entire prologue and which consequently changed my entire theology.
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates is an atheist. But perhaps his atheism is precisely the kind that Christians in America need.
The social gospel of Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
Yet, his “pessimism” lies in thinking change is unlikely, not that change is impossible. When discussing police brutality and criminal justice, he reminds his readers that “democratic will” has sanctioned and allowed the abuses that flow from these practices.