Scholars across multiple disciplines have offered a variety of accounts of reconciliation—what reconciliation is, under what conditions it should be…
On parable, truth, and true and false reconciliation
racism
Racism and sectarianism
My use of Du Bois here is to think through fundamentally coeval, yet different, histories, vocabularies, and trajectories of discrimination…
The longue durée of apocalypse
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne discuss apocalypse as both beginning and ending in the context of the rise of settler…
A theodicy of the unliving, or, Why I won’t teach my Black Lives Matter class anymore
For the past three years, I have taught a course entitled “#BlackLivesMatter and Religion.” [. . .] But after this…
Practices of relation: Gorski and Perry
Sociologists Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry engage one another in critical dialogue around White Christian Nationalism in the United States.
Making a scene
Bouteldja speaks to us like one of those books we need, one of these books that wake us up with…
The world love jam
Before I read Houria Bouteldja’s Whites, Jews, and Us in full, I heard about the controversy that accompanied its initial…
Space is all there is
With each event of violence, or racism, I step out of myself back to my childhood, where I imagined a…
Religion, secularism, and Black Lives Matter
In February 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman was initially released on…
Faith caught between racism and resistance
On June 16, a young white man motivated by white supremacist ideologies entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a…