racism
Birthing you is an act of radical hope
Accepting the call to Black motherhood without averting my eyes from the spectacle of Black death
Drawing close to Howard Thurman
Two new books invite us to learn from what others have loved about the civil rights icon.
Want to challenge White supremacy? Here’s a good place to start.
Kerry Connelly and Layla F. Saad offer primers for White people in various stages of antiracism journeys.
by Jane McBride
Take & Read: Theology
Four new books that are shaping theological conversations
selected by Jason Micheli
Take & Read: Old Testament
Four new books about biblical texts and their reception
selected by Amy Erickson
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.”
by Ashley Makar
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.
by Chris Hammer
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.
by Aaron Klink