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Michelle Duster situates her influential great-grandmother in the history of Black life in America.

What would it take to stop seeing neighbors as intruders and threats?

Susan Neiman considers how Americans might learn from Germany.

New books that are shaping conversations about American religious history

In his final memoir, Cone’s testimony resounds.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice represents a watershed moment in the idea and practice of what a public memorial can be.

The tension was palpable. Then a white student stood up and said something I've never forgotten.

The award honors his book The Cross and the Lynching Tree, which shows how white supremacy has affected dominant views in the church.

Why does the church participate in modern-day lynching, or at most turn a blind eye, rather than protesting as our faith would dictate?

I jog over some of the most beautiful and haunted geography. There is a place in Chattanooga where stunning nature collides with a series of heart-wrenching narratives.