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June 2020

June 25, 2020

Men Whose Ancestors Were Never Enslaved Question How Bad Slavery Actually Is

I've had evangelical Christians insist to me that it's crystal clear that the Bible is...

January 2020

January 28, 2020

White Evangelicals Still Haven’t Got Slavery Figured Out

The fact that Paul both condemns sexual immorality---including prostitution---and tells slaves to obey their masters...

December 2018

December 12, 2018

The Annotated “Slave Bible” and Slave-Initiated Bible-Based Resistance

The Bible in the hands of white man was well and good. The Bible in...

September 2017

September 14, 2017

Iowa Rep. Steve King Sounds Like the Antebellum American Colonization Society

While there is a lot that could be said about Rep. King's comments---and by that...

August 2017

August 23, 2017

Tucker Carlson’s Strange Attempt to Condemn Slavery

I know this game. I've played it before, opposite people like Carlson. I played it...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

No, That’s Not Why Confederate Statues Are Being Removed

This isn't about Lee being a slaveholder. It's about his role in an armed rebellion...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

No, the African American Womb Is Not More Dangerous Today than during Slavery

This entire conversation ignores the fact that it is absurd to compare abortion and child...

July 13, 2015

Doug Wilson: Exchange with Thabiti Anyabwile

Previously in this series, I have covered conservative theologian Doug Wilson's 1996 pamphlet, Southern Slavery...

July 09, 2015

Doug Wilson: Black and Tan

In our last post, we dealt with Doug Wilson's 1996 work, Southern Slavery As It...

July 08, 2015

Doug Wilson: Slavery As It Was

I wrote yesterday about Doug Wilson's statement that supporting marriage equality is a worse sin...

July 07, 2015

Doug Wilson: Supporting Marriage Equality Is a “Far More Serious” Problem Than Supporting Slavery

It might be worth reminding readers that Wilson has a long history of referring to...