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March 2019

March 06, 2019

Is White Supremacy Hiding Behind the Guise of “Diversity” [in US Churches]?

Is White Supremacy Hiding Behind the Guise of “Diversity”? I mean probably but also, here's...

June 2018

June 17, 2018

An Honest but Supportive Critique of the Reclaiming Jesus Movement

A Supportive Critique of the Reclaiming Jesus Movement There are two things both liberals and...

May 2018

May 15, 2018

Interpreting Childish Gambino’s “This is America” in Relation to the American Church

As if there aren't already enough interpretations out there. While, at the same time, I...

January 2018

January 17, 2018

Is the Most Segregated Hour of Christian America Still Eleven O’clock on Sunday Morning?

Church hopping is a lot like seeing other people when you’re dating someone else. But,...

December 2017

December 13, 2017

Revolution of Niceness: Differentiating Between Good and Nice

I'm not sure anyone else within white Americanized Christianity, is saying it so I will: The...

December 08, 2017

Equitable Unity in the American Church: How Can We Better Empower People of Color?

Welcoming a stranger into your home and allowing them to shift things around in order...

November 2017

November 06, 2017

White Christian Exceptionalism: The Painful Irony of a Prideful Death

White Christian Exceptionalism: The Painful Irony of a Prideful Death It's a bizarre thing, in...

June 2017

June 22, 2017

The American Church and Our Ties to White Nationalism

To Separate the Institutionalized American Church From White Nationalism is… …like removing the beating heart...

December 2016

December 03, 2016

“A White Supremacist vs. An Anti-American Terrorist”

Okay, so, lets talk a little bit about Wednesday’s discussion between Trevor Noah and Tomi...

September 2016

September 01, 2016

On Lynching Colin Kaepernick

I'm having the hardest time fully understanding why our nation is so incredibly outraged over Colin...

June 2016

June 06, 2016

Jesus Was Not a Pacifist (A kind response to Benjamin Corey)

“So persistent is the cry of peace among the ruling classes and so strong the...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Do the Black Panthers Still Exist?

There seems to be a lot of talk surrounding the Black Panther Party; with Beyonce...

May 16, 2016

John Piper Joins the #BlackLivesMatter movement!?

I mean, not really, but kind of... Piper's opening is predictably cringeworthy, but his conclusion is...

May 06, 2016

“How do we call people in even as we call them out?”

I recently lost yet another a white friend over “the issue of race.” It was...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

A Lack of “Minority” Church Leaders is Killing the Church

A Lack of "minority"[1] church leadership is killing our economy which includes the health and future...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

The New Moral Majority: The Misfits and The Exiled

The church isn't dying (I spoke about that here), it's the first world's conservative evangelical...

February 10, 2016

Why I’ll Be Angry if Wheaton College Does Not Fire Larycia Hawkins

“It's worth remembeing that the wedge that splits the wood is what ultimately takes the...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

The War On Guns: How It’s the Same Thing as the War On Drugs

I live in the hood right now; they call it the badlands, "known for an...

January 18, 2016

Pseudo-Pacifism: Why Privileged People Love Quoting MLK

If you’re someone that is outspoken on the issue of race chances are, at one point or...

January 13, 2016

How We Fight Each Other Instead of Combatting Injustice

I think fighting injustice is, unfortunately, the willingness to step into the darkness, all while...

December 2015

December 23, 2015

White Privilege is a Myth

The biggest misunderstanding of white privilege is that simply because you are white, you then...

December 07, 2015

Interview: “Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism”

Okay, so I'm restarting this whole "podcast" thing. I'm putting the word podcast in quotes...

August 2015

August 21, 2015

How is Race a Social Construction

It's needs to be re-emphasized that none of this is to suggest race doesn't matter,...

July 2015

July 02, 2015

How You Can Help Fight Racism, And 7 Books to Read

But in my opinion, and experience so far, if someone is unwilling to read something...

June 2015

June 25, 2015

When Will We Admit that American Christianity is the Same Thing as White Supremacy?

[Photo Credit: Jeff Hood] Watching the news and hearing about the repeated acts of violence...

June 15, 2015

Making Sense of Rachel Dolezal’s Backlash And Why She Faked Being Black

By now you’ve probably heard of Rachel Dolezal, this morning she announced her resignation as...

May 2015

May 06, 2015

Reframing the Narrative By Asserting your Humanity

In the past few days I've been repeatedly asked the same two questions: Where is...

April 2015

April 27, 2015

Martin Luther King Jr. on His Biggest Mistake

"Alex Haley’s 1965 Playboy Interview with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. | In 1964, after he...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

Dear Young Men of Color: Overcoming Oppression

[Image is a screenshot from Fong Tran’s spoken word titled, “Dear Young Men of Color,”...

March 09, 2015

Lyndon Baines Johnson Recordings on Selma

Lyndon Baines Johnson Recordings on Selma: This film collects archival material from the LBJ Library, the Miller...