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The Black Madonna and the church’s imagination
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones argues that to name Mary as Black is to challenge Christianity’s complicity in colonization and to claim sacred Blackness.
Tyler, the Creator’s album Don’t Tap the Glass suggests that our phone cameras pose a threat to our embodied human freedom.
Our holy, human bodies
To build the Beloved Community, we need to think and talk and act differently about bodies.
by Julian DeShazier