For the past three years, I have taught a course entitled “#BlackLivesMatter and Religion.” [. . .] But after this…
A theodicy of the unliving, or, Why I won’t teach my Black Lives Matter class anymore
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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…
In defense of Muslim civil liberities
Alison Parker, the Human Rights Watch U.S. Program Director, composed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, urging the…
Fighting words that are not fought
“Under what conditions does freedom of speech become freedom to hate?” Judith Butler recently asked. Here I will explore these…
“Love Thy Neighbor? Not If He’s Different”
At Miller-McCune, David Villano reports on a new study that finds that religious adherents in the U.S. are more inclined…