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Religion Dispatches
In late June, national news outlets reported that former President Trump had received the largest donation of the 2024 election. Billionaire Tim Mellon’s $50 million contribution, arriving just a day…
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Religion Dispatches
So, let’s start with a joke. A Black nationalist female rabbi, a Black male womanist rabbi, and Black Jewish apostate walk into a bar… There’s been nonstop controversy since NBA star Kyrie Irving…
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As the Select Committee on the January 6 th Insurrection is now investigating the terrorist attack on the United States Capitol, one theme that deserves closer inspection is white Christian…
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UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET January 6: Hours after this essay was published, Trump supporters breached security and entered the Capitol, spurred on by Trump himself. Their goal was to interrupt Congress as…
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On Monday, I and a group of womanist Presidents and Deans, decided that we would not be silent as we witnessed the ongoing murders of and harm to Black people by police officers. We began to write a…
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One critic was like, “Rachel Held Evans bases her Biblical interpretation on all the feels”… So I took a picture of my endnotes, which are lengthy, and sent them to him with the note, “All the feels, page 1,” “All the feels, page 2”…
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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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While the socio-political, economic, and cultural climate motivating the work has shifted—the fundamental and death-dealing disregard for black life has remained unaltered.
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What audiences learn by the end of the film is that evil cannot be located in a single demigod, villain or agent.
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