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March 2021

March 16, 2021

School Resource Officers: The Bullies in Blue

School Resource Officers: The Bullies in Blue "Few greater dangers face our children today than...

March 06, 2020

Darius Tarver & The Danger of Sensationalism

The story: DENTON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) — Denton police released video Thursday of an...

November 2018

November 22, 2018

Armed WHITE Men: Thanksgiving?

Manufactured. Thanksgiving? Evil. We give thanks for the rapes perpetuated by armed white men. We...

September 2018

September 16, 2018

The Downfall of Civil Disobedience

"Come to the table..." These three words change lives. The table beckons us to...

June 2018

June 06, 2018

Existence as Threat

"Hell yeah!" The kids were pumped up. The park is a sacred space for...

June 03, 2018

Existence as Threat

"Hell yeah!" The kids were pumped up. The park is a sacred space...

July 2017

July 29, 2017

Blue Salvation: Redemption from Blue Supremacy

I was just a child. When people started to celebrate my Dad, it took...

July 20, 2017

God is Not Blue: On the Churches of Blue Supremacy

Since last year, I've repeatedly seen churches hold praise/gratitude services for local law enforcement....

July 18, 2016

Babel.

Writing used to be easy. Now, nothing seems easy. Leaning in, I just stare...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Jesus: “Fuck tha Police”

While on routine patrol of Brooklyn, New York's Pink Houses with his gun drawn...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

Tamir Rice and Our Sin

Our laws allow for our police to shoot first and ask questions later. The murder...

December 04, 2015

The Church: The Service (Part4of15)

Though this is definitely outside of what I normally write, I’ve decided to publish a...

May 2015

May 07, 2015

Would Jesus Call the Police?

Last Tuesday night, someone called the police and reported a homeless man with a...

March 2015

March 20, 2015

The Genocide of the Mentally Ill

Jason Harrison is dead. Jason Harrison is not dead because he was holding a...

February 2015

February 12, 2015

The Lynching of Sureshbhai Patel

The video is horrific. Madison, Alabama police officer Eric Parker slammed Sureshbhai Patel into...

December 2014

December 07, 2014

The Real Church is in The Streets: A Speech Delivered to the Dallas Rally Against Police Brutality on December 5, 2014

Whose streets??? Our streets!!! Whose streets??? Our streets!!! Good evening,...

December 07, 2014

The Letter from the Dallas County Jail

Dear people of God, I can't...

November 2014

November 25, 2014

The Indictment of Jesus in the Flames of Ferguson

I have not looked at all the evidence. I only know that an armed police...

October 2014

October 17, 2014

the confusion of the outside agitator: apoem

the you outside agitator the run the stun outside agitator the fear the hide the...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

My Struggle with Stonewall

There are few names of places whose mere utterance evokes description of social movement. ...