Georgetown was built on the backs of enslaved people
Reparations for their descendants are a necessary, imperfect beginning.
slavery
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
What the Bible actually says about abortion, slavery, and other controversial topics
Should scripture inform our ethics? How, and which parts?
The suffering Jesus in Shawn Copeland’s theology
African American spirituality and God’s act of solidarity
No one has done more to transform the language for thinking about America’s racial past.
No full reparation for slavery can ever be made. We should try anyway.
A black pastor writes to the white church about its complicity in oppression
Lenny Duncan’s letter is full of hope and fury, love and lament—like Paul’s epistles.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice represents a watershed moment in the idea and practice of what a public memorial can be.