Robert P. Jones Underneath the glossy, self-congratulatory histories This book puts forward a simple proposition: it is time - indeed, well beyond time - for white Christians in the United States to reckon with the racism of our…
Lenny Duncan The roots of black Lutheranism in America Jehu would eventually be sent to Philadelphia to be a missionary to the black community there. He founded St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Center City Philadelphia. He bought the land…
Leigh Finke A choice? Some people remain convinced that being queer is a choice, an anomaly, a problem to be solved. But nothing could be further from the truth. Some people argue that queerness…
Kerry Connelly America is good Americans are good. In his July 2019 newsletter to his followers, evangelical leader James Dobson described a visit to the southern border of the United States during what can only…
Leigh Finke What About Biology? You’ve probably heard all of the arguments: There are two biological genders, two sexes for the purpose of reproduction. You’re either XX or XY - there aren’t any other options.…
Kerry Connelly Implied hierarchy Let’s take the binary of white/nonwhite - you know, as a totally random example. Whether you’re ready to admit it yet or not, there’s a hierarchy built in there. Everything…
Maya Angelou To Tell the Truth My mother, Vivian Baxter, warned me often not to believe that people really want the truth when they ask, “How are you?” She said that question was asked around…
Uncategorized This secessionist religion not only survived but also thrived After decades of regional tensions at the Triennial Conventions, where Baptists gathered to coordinate their church and missions work in the early eighteen hundreds, Baptists in the South brought the…
Barbara Brown Taylor There is a place where human knowing runs out “We know,” Nicodemus says to Jesus when he first comes into the room. “You do not know,” Jesus says to Nicodemus right before he leaves. If you interpret this as…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Un-Christlike Conservativism I’ve traveled around the country working at the intersection of progressive politics and religion for the past decade and met countless activists bogged down by un-Christlike conservativism prevailing in our…
