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With James Cone’s death, comes the death of Black theology. This statement is hyperbolic in that a variety of theologians—some trained by Cone and others not—will continue to write theological texts…
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A recent Fox News headline, “Americans who Practice Yoga Contribute to White Supremacy, Michigan State University Professor Claims,” dangled like red meat before its readers, begging them to snap…
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Nobody’s perfect. “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” Paul wrote to a Christian community in Rome. It’s an important verse in American evangelical Christianity. Because all have…
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Just as no American, after Charlottesville, can doubt that the current US president remains deferential to an extremist white supremacist base that rallies in his name, so too no American can pretend Confederate memorials don’t serve as public shrines to a treasonous worldview
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When the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting “went off the rails” last month following the voting body’s initial refusal to take up a resolution condemning white supremacy and the alt-right…
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The Texas pastor who drafted the original resolution calling on the Southern Baptist Convention to condemn white supremacy and the “alt-right” said he was “shocked” by the massive controversy his…
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Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, now in its second iteration, deserves its shorthand designation: the Muslim Ban. And this new administration’s slapdash effort to ban travel from Iran…
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Just nine weeks into this year, at least seven trans people—all women of color, and most of them black trans women—have been murdered in the U.S. These are their names: Mesha Caldwell. JoJo Striker…
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David Nirenberg, historian of Judaism, spoke with RD about Twitter, Trump, and the parallels between anti-Semitism and misogyny.
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