Bouteldja speaks to us like one of those books we need, one of these books that wake us up with…
Making a scene
racism
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…
Remembering Obama
What is the past through which "these things"---"honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and…
Beyond beliefs
Pollsters, sociologists and evangelical Protestants don't all agree exactly on who counts as an "evangelical." It is safe to say,…