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Resisting as a way of life
For Kaitlin Curtice, resistance is no mere buzzword—it’s a mighty calling.
The racist scientism of our past
The Century, like the Smithsonian, once supported eugenics.
The dream and the backlash
Sixty years after the March on Washington, we don’t talk much about how nervous it made White people.
The duly elected Black men expelled from a state legislature—155 years ago
The expulsion of Justin Jones and Justin Pearson recalls the Original 33, expelled by Georgia’s anti-Reconstruction White majority in 1868.
The White church still owes “Letter from Birmingham Jail” an answer
King’s letter is so soaked in US history that 60 years later we almost forget it was addressed not to the nation but to specific Christian pastors.
Anti-racism’s mission drift
Privileged progressives have turned their attention from structures and systems to sentimentalism.
Tyre Nichols’s killing is not an exception
Police violence against Black citizens is written into the script of American culture.
Interfaith coalition launches bus tour against Christian nationalism
by Jeff Brumley
White supremacy’s wee little men
Zaccheus doesn't mind the indignity of scrambling up a tree, as long as he’s on top.
The mass shooting in Buffalo was an attack on the image of God
And it was enabled by social structures of permission.
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.
Is there an antidote to White grievance?
It’s hard to imagine this fear-driven resentment responding to outside counsel.
The Rittenhouse verdict and the twisting of natural law
If a protest for equal rights is a threatening provocation, then answering that threat with violence is merely self-defense.
What would it take for #CurriculumSoWhite to stop trending?
According to Bree Picower, it starts with the teachers—80 percent of whom are White.
Whiteness rooted in place
“All of our efforts at changing the social fabric of this country must begin with changing the geographic fabric.”
Matthew Vega interviews Willie James Jennings
When localism becomes nationalism
At the farmers market, I found something I didn’t expect—White supremacists.
Birthing you is an act of radical hope
Accepting the call to Black motherhood without averting my eyes from the spectacle of Black death
Episode 8: Pastor and activist Melissa Florer-Bixler, author of How to Have an Enemy
A conversation with pastor and activist Melissa Florer-Bixler about about L’Arche North Carolina, anti-Black racism, defunding the police, holy anger, Mary the first priest, Whiteness, and more