Red and Blue & Black and White: Untangling Race, Religion and Politics in America
The goal today is this: to untangle race, religion, and politics so that divisions in the world don’t cause divisions in the Church.
The goal today is this: to untangle race, religion, and politics so that divisions in the world don’t cause divisions in the Church.
Divided By Faith (2001), the famous book written by Emerson and Smith, carefully documented…
In Mississippi, we can’t pretend. We can’t pretend that none of the past happened, nor act as though it doesn’t affect the here and now.
On August 24th, 1955, in Money, MS, the trajectory of a young man’s life…
White-centeredness highlights the actions of the majority culture as normal, authoritative, and foolproof. White…
I resolved to write an article on Lemuel Haynes in observation of black history…
February 26, 2012 marked a resurgence of the civil rights movement in America. Seven years…
This is only a small story in the larger picture of the fight against racism, but it encourages us to display the grace of the gospel at all times, and to change the negative narratives of racial injustice and inequality that continue today.
There is something wrong with reducing black life down to comparative terms that perpetuate a narrative of white affluence and black victimization. These two opposing views have collided in the recent public framing of black life in America as downtrodden, destitute, and hopeless–and they speciously encourage double consciousness.
Because of the private nature of sexuality in marriage, sexual intimacy is rarely discussed in the church in a joint public forum that addresses its nuances appropriately, but honestly for the married and singles. As a result, we often adopt a shallow view of what sexual intimacy is.