This line of attack goes back to the White Christian opponents of the 19th-century abolition movement.
slavery
Dethroning the canonical Paul
Cavan Concannon believes that the apostle’s writings belong in the latrine.
Lisa Sharon Harper’s memoir of the legacy of slavery
Fortune gives a wrenching account of intergenerational trauma and its costs.
Freeing Philemon from the “fugitive slave” theory
Stephen Young lets Paul’s letter speak for itself.
White Americans aren’t the Israelites; we’re the Egyptians. Maybe we should follow their lead.
Take & Read: American religious history
Five new books about myths and narratives that shape religion in the United States
Georgetown was built on the backs of enslaved people
Reparations for their descendants are a necessary, imperfect beginning.
We need structural change. We also need to be willing to be personally undone.
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.
Seeing Black people in scripture
Esau McCaulley’s book reclaims what the Black church has always known.
It utterly reshaped the country’s religious landscape.
Take & Read: New Testament
Has Paul been unfairly judged?
Faith shaped by migration, diaspora, and slavery
When people’s value is reduced to their economic contributions, they are dehumanized.
What makes an American home?
A literary look at the walls that protect us—and keep us captive