Heath W. Carter
Heath W. Carter teaches American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary.
How mainline Protestants got involved in urban renewal
Mark Wild complicates the conventional account of postwar white flight.
by Heath W. Carter
March 26, 2020
The formation of Martin Luther King Jr.
Motivated in part by the whitewashing of a radical legacy, Patrick Parr explores King's seminary years and the roots planted there.
by Heath W. Carter
April 3, 2018
Woodrow Wilson’s troubling faith
Wilson adopted a brand of social Christianity that justified white supremacy and more.
by Heath W. Carter
June 26, 2017
Neighborhoods real and imagined
Ideas about the ghetto matter. They always have.
by Heath W. Carter
September 29, 2016
In the last six weeks police officers have killed at least five unarmed African American men: Eric Garner, John Crawford, Ezell Ford, Dante Parker, and Michael Brown. This does not include Kajieme Powell, who was carrying a steak knife when two officers gunned him down just a few miles away from the site of Brown’s death. As much as some commentators might want to dismiss the protests as the cynical work of “screamers” and “race hustlers,” there is no doubt that the unrest sprung in large part from a righteous indignation at this nation’s long and persistent record of state violence against black men.
September 3, 2014
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