I have been confounded by the similarities between how white Christian reformers understood blackness and how those same assumptions are…
The everyday ecology of antiblack religion
Black Lives Matter
Abolition is sacred work
White siblings, the work of today is the work of this year is the work of our lifetimes.
Bearing witness to testimonies of antiblackness
Social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter highlight the unequal social position afforded Black people and disparities in their…
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…
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
This forum explores the white American ritual of Black death. It also ruminates on how scholars of religion reckon with…
Religious naturalism, myriad nature, and justice: A reply to Kahn and Keller
I very much appreciate the scholarship of Jonathon Kahn and Mary Keller, so am particularly grateful for this opportunity to…
Black Lives: Triangulations with the natural world
In Black Lives and Sacred Humanity Carol Wayne White accomplishes two important things with regard to querying normativity and the…
A natural vision of justice amidst the pandemic
Reading Carol Wayne White’s Black Lives and Sacred Humanity: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism during summer 2020 was an…