How to Be an Angry Christian, According to Thomas Aquinas By Stewart Clem People are angry. Given everything that’s happened in 2020, combined with the unlimited opportunities created by the internet for expressing our anger, this might be the angriest year in all ... Read More...
“Past its Teeming Time”: Lessons from Colonial Barbados about Environmental Racism By Mark Clavier When John Atkins, a British royal navy surgeon, visited Barbados in 1722, he was astonished by what he found. He had heard about the wealth and fertility of the island, then a leading produce... Read More...
On Justice By Daniel Martins The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers on May 25 triggered an explosive response across the nation (and beyond) that has riveted attention on the issue of racism — both personal and systemic. This has profoundly a... Read More...
Blood of the Black Christ, Shed for All By Christopher Wells All right, I was colored. It was fine. I did not know enough to be afraid or to anticipate in a concrete manner. True, I had heard that colored people were killed and beaten, but so far it... Read More...
Yearning To Breathe Free: A Reflection On the Murder of George Floyd By Pamela A. Lewis "It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate." — James Bald... Read More...
Driving while black: On transformative police encounters We need to have a national conversation about the treatment of African Americans at the hands of the police.
A church that loves the prophets Are the prophets merely the forerunners of the non-profits, God’s agents of social improvement in the lives of those who need it most?
