There Is No Christian Political Party: A Conversation With Jemar Tisby
Jemar Tisby and I are sitting in an apartment near Central Park on the…
Jemar Tisby and I are sitting in an apartment near Central Park on the…
Content Warning: This post contains a description of domestic violence. As we approach the…
Atatiana Koquice Jefferson isn’t a name that will live in infamy. It’s likely that…
Happy MLK Day! In honor of the famed civil rights icon who is often…
Growing up in Black churches, I remember hearing the phrase “There ain’t no salvation…
We started the Cultural Artifacts episodes in 2015 because we wanted to encompass the awesome things — books, albums, podcasts, sermons, people, events, movies, TV shows, and so on — that we’ve consumed in a given year. (Here’s the kicker: it doesn’t have to come out in the given year. It just has to be consumed in the given year.
The Jesus signs and Christian imagery carried by the insurrectionists turned many a stomach, but it also does us the favor of further differentiating between Christ’s true disciples and Cultural Christians. The former are pliable clay in the Master’s hands; the latter are silly putty in the hands of corrupt leaders.
Black un-dignity is a gift from God because it’s a stumbling block to the indignity of racism. God has given Black people the beauty of our culture for the ashes of oppression.
After the chaos of 2020, we all have been looking forward to 2021…welp…
The white nationalism cloaked in self-righteous Jesus worship absent Christ-likeness has been enthroned as the state religion in America yet corrupting many expressions of Christianity beyond her shores and is such a telling indictment. So many of the Christian voices I’d come to love and respect have become loudly complicit in this dangerous religious circus and Jesus cult that many are growing increasingly despondent of.