whiteness
A poet’s quarrel with herself
Danielle Chapman’s lustrous memoir is at its best when she holds her family’s Confederate history up to the light.
Does Nathan Hill wink at us in Wellness?
Why are non-White characters so absent from this urban/suburban narrative?
Episode 22: Canon theologian Kelly Brown Douglas, author of Resurrection Hope
A conversation with dean and canon theologian Kelly Brown Douglas about anti-Blackness, just communities, Black Lives Matter, and more
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.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the monster of Whiteness
Unmasking and slaying our Promethean desire for mastery
Stephanie Spellers’s bold, practical wisdom for American Christians
Kenosis, solidarity, and discipleship
Willie Jennings’s plea to create a new kind of theologian
After Whiteness is urgent reading for any institution that purports to care about God and race.
Prominent evangelical scholars are, once again, disavowing Trump
They’re brave to do so. Do they go far enough?
Talking to white kids about what whiteness means
Three children’s books to help start the conversation
Examining whiteness through “reparative writing”
Jess Row asks what happens when alienation turns to rage.
Why are rural white Americans willing to prioritize cultural whiteness above all else?
Jonathan Metzl offers useful data and analysis, if not much empathy.
European Christian missionaries and their false sense of progress
What does maturity look like? Whiteness is a horrific answer to this question.
BlacKkKlansman, Sorry to Bother You, and the “white voice”
If whiteness is a fiction, it's one that does a lot of damage.
American evangelicalism and the politics of whiteness
If white evangelicals are united by anything, it isn't theology.
Helping white people talk about racism—with each other
Carolyn Helsel's guidebook is insightful, sensitive, and deeply practical.
Reckoning with racism
Why does the church participate in modern-day lynching, or at most turn a blind eye, rather than protesting as our faith would dictate?