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February 2016

February 29, 2016

Is Slavery Really Over?

White people will never be able to understand the problem of policing and the black...

December 2015

December 27, 2015

Is Tribal Christianity as Dangerous as Tribal Islam?

Stories of dysfunction and violence in Islamic countries and stories of institutional racism and xenophobia...

December 01, 2015

Homegrown Terrorism: Why Colorado is NOT the Action of a Lone Gunman

The truth is, all Christians, pro-life and pro-choice, need to change our behavior when it...

November 2015

November 19, 2015

Violence and Ambiguity – What Can We Assert?

Ambiguity is an honest and appropriate response to events that are rapidly unfolding, complex, emotionally-charged,...

October 2015

October 07, 2015

How Capitalism is Destroying Higher Education: Why David Brooks Got it Wrong

To suggest that when faculty focus on research and teaching that we (or our universities)...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

Documenting the Undocumented: How ID Programs Improve Community

It is difficult to keep your community safe if undocumented community members are afraid of...

September 10, 2015

Is a “Fair Trial” possible in a racist society?

Most of us aren’t trained to think about social problems in a structural way. When...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

Bernie Sanders Is Riding the Third Rail

By standing up for socialism and ideas that have been marked as unpopular and unwinnable,...

August 14, 2015

What Christian Feminism Can Teach Us About Dealing with Our Racist Past

In the midst of a country where black lives appear expendable and some white people...

August 12, 2015

Trump, Republican Misogyny, and the Attacks on Planned Parenthood

The best avenue for reducing abortions is not bullying women into not having them, it’s...

May 2015

May 08, 2015

Why Do Christians Fight Over the Bible?

Last week I wrote a blog post about the Supreme Court’s deliberations regarding marriage equality....

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Biblical Marriage is Not What You Think

God protect us from Biblical sexual ethics, Biblical marriages, and Biblical literalists! The truth of...

April 24, 2015

NC Republican Legislators Reject Facts, Embrace Emotion

In a context where the vast majority of women are acting as responsible moral agents...

April 23, 2015

Connecting the Dots Between Wild Violets, Fracking, and Homelessness

It’s springtime in North Carolina. Between the redbuds, dogwoods, azaleas, wisteria, lily of the valley,...

April 11, 2015

Safe Sex, Healthy Sex, Sacred Sex

A couple of years ago, when my daughter was in seventh grade, I got a...

March 2015

March 16, 2015

You Can Hang ‘Em From a Tree . . .

When I first watched the videos of young, white fraternity brothers casually singing their song of...

February 2015

February 20, 2015

Fighting Poverty and Politics in North Carolina

North Carolina has the dubious honor of leading the nation in the increase of people...