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June 2017

June 07, 2017

Freedom & the Racialized Body: Resonances with Luther at 500

The following is from part of what I presented at the recent conference on Embodied...

August 2016

August 01, 2016

All About Hijab: Gender, Race, Religion & Ghazala Khan

It started with a dignified woman standing on stage, on television, stoically bearing witness to...

July 2016

July 11, 2016

Writing About #BlackLivesMatter While White

By now, you know whether or not Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had criminal records....

July 01, 2016

#JesseWilliamsSyllabus

I was going to write about the liberation theology of Jesse Williams. I immediately zoned...

May 2016

May 02, 2016

#BlackLivesMatter in Barbershop’s Love Letter to Chicago

I spent five formative years in my mid-twenties living in Hyde Park on the South...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

Prince Was My Third Tween Love (the naughty one)

After memorizing every word of every song on my Rick Springfield cassette tape of Living in...

March 2016

March 03, 2016

Water, Water, Everywhere: On Death, Flint & “Formation”

Consider images of water flooding recent news and pop culture: Parents holding up baby bottles...

January 2016

January 30, 2016

At the Intersections: The Public Body of Christ

Many good people live and work at the intersections and I occasionally invite someone to tell a...

January 08, 2016

A Big Magic Believer

Some people would say that because I’m a theologian I already embrace magical thinking (i.e.,...

January 04, 2016

Defending the Value of Muslim Lives, No Matter Where You Live

I wrote this piece which first appeared in the December 18, 2015, issue of the...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

November 2015

November 20, 2015

Engaging & Navigating #AARSBL15

Today I’m in Atlanta for the American Academy of Religion annual meeting. When I was...

November 05, 2015

Racial Justice & a Lutheran Roundtable

Today I’m heading to Chicago for a meeting of the Theological Roundtable of the Evangelical...

October 2015

October 01, 2015

My Review of “Mormon Feminism”

The new book, Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings, edited by Joanna Brooks, Rachel Hunt Steenblik, and...

September 2015

September 01, 2015

Let’s Do Justice

We have a new voice joining the work of writing and moving toward justice at Patheos....

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Why #BlackLivesMatter Has to Exist

I wrote the following piece which was first published in the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, my local...

August 25, 2015

Words for Justice, Songs for Worship

My friend and colleague Rev. Jann Aldredge-Clanton has just published a new book titled Earth...

July 2015

July 09, 2015

Who Are You Reading? Paying Attention to Race & Gender

To some fanfare, Mark Zuckerberg announced in January that in 2015 he was going to...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

#Charleston :: Round-Up of Lutheran Voices & Resources

On June 18, 2015, ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton wrote: "It has been a long...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

At the Intersections: #BlackLivesMatter Vigils & the (white) Privilege of Growing Up

Many good people live and work at the intersections and I occasionally invite someone to...

May 13, 2015

Summer Reading List from a Lutheran Roundtable

I recently attended a meeting of the Theological Roundtable of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in...

March 2015

March 26, 2015

Vocation at the Intersection of Self & World

Today I’m heading to St. Louis for the National Conference of the Network for Vocation...

March 13, 2015

At the Intersections: A Quota of Home, A Colonized Name

Many good people live and work at the intersections, and I occasionally invite someone to tell...

March 06, 2015

At the Intersections: I Remember

Many good people live and work at the intersections, and I occasionally invite someone to tell...

February 2015

February 24, 2015

At the Intersections: On Being Black and Queer at a Black Baptist Church

Many good people live and work at the intersections, and I occasionally invite someone to tell...

January 2015

January 19, 2015

Nonconformity, Anger, Hope: A Genealogy of Words for MLK Day 2015

This morning, I participated in a Speak-In on campus during which faculty, staff, and students...