I welcome Spirit in the Dark for the seriousness with which it opens new prospects for the study of religion and literature…
Don’t play that song, Nathan Scott
African Americans
America’s music
On December 4, 1987 both chambers of the 100th United States Congress passed a “resolution expressing the sense of Congress…
The Help, ethnography, and ickiness
This is a post about the politics of representation, postcolonial theory, and the Hollywood movie, The Help. And it begins…
The politics of the atonement
To grasp the deep architecture of the political today, therefore, is to venture into the theological domains of Christology and…
Empty pews for some churches in Harlem
The New York Times recently published an article by Trymaine Lee detailing the hard times that the smaller, less well-known…
‘What funeral?’ A response to Eddie Glaude
Eddie Glaude's proclamation that "The Black Church is Dead" has had a vast ripple-effect across the Web. Recently, Candice Benbow,…
“The Death and Life of the Black Church”
At Bloggingheads.tv, Eddie Glaude, Jr. and Josef Sorett discuss what it means to be black and Christian in the present,…
Perplexed by Pentecostalism
Lost in the discussion of Sarah Palin's religion is an appreciation for the diversity of American Pentecostalism, past and present.
Obama, Wright, and Trinity
The East Coast media establishment---both "conservatives" and "liberals"---continue to ask the same question about Senator Barack Obama: why did he…