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Can we be reconciled to God without being reconciled to one another?
Jonathan Augustine starts where Barth left off, moving from salvific reconciliation to social reconciliation.
Epistles of hope for our time
Randal Jelks and Shaka Senghor both write with realism but not fatalism.
Episode 21: Activist and scholar Jemar Tisby, author of How to Fight Racism: Young Reader's Edition
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
Labor, land, and racism
Fifty years later, Wendell Berry revisits the themes he introduced in The Hidden Wound.
by Brian Volck
Critical race theory can help us serve others
Why would we refuse that help?
American “heathens”
Kathryn Gin Lum explores the entwining of racial and religious stereotypes in the United States.
Imani Perry’s tour of the American South
South to America shows how one region’s beauty, losses, and inequities have shaped the country as a whole.
A letter to my Black daughter after the fall of Roe
Your body is not a public domain.
How Christena Cleveland walked away from “whitemalegod”
The social psychologist went on a revolutionary pilgrimage in search of the sacred Black feminine.
Feeling US history
School districts and legislatures aren’t just challenging textbooks and curricula. They’re challenging feelings.
by Amy Frykholm
White supremacy’s wee little men
Zaccheus doesn't mind the indignity of scrambling up a tree, as long as he’s on top.
A White woman takes on the problem of nice White ladies
Sociologist Jessie Daniels reckons with the dangerous implications of the person she was raised to be.
The mass shooting in Buffalo was an attack on the image of God
And it was enabled by social structures of permission.
Take & Read: Ethics
Four new books that are shaping conversations about ethics
selected by Jonathan Tran
Lisa Sharon Harper’s memoir of the legacy of slavery
Fortune gives a wrenching account of intergenerational trauma and its costs.
How should Asian American Christians respond to anti-Asian racism?
Be like water: clear, humble, persistent, and restorative.
Amara Ifeji works at the intersection of climate and racial justice
The Nigerian-born activist grew up in Maine playing with the dirt—and experiencing environmental racism.
Obery Hendricks condemns the sins of right-wing evangelicalism
If his book were a trial, the verdict would be clear: guilty.
Grace Ji-Sun Kim’s theology of visibility
When Asian American women are rendered invisible, the whole church is diminished.
The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill is conspicuously silent on race
Mark Driscoll’s megachurch radicalized White men by weaponizing the White nuclear family.