After Whiteness…Where Do We Go From Here? After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging By Willie James Jennings Eerdmans, pp. 175. $19.99 Review by Joseph Dewey Theology is caught more than taught. The potency of proclamation is only as powerf... Read More...
Virtue Signaling By Charlie Clauss One of the many terms that seem to have sprung up in our current cultural moment is the pejorative “virtue signaling.” In the mouth of most speakers, it seems to mean a type of speech or ac... Read More...
Critical Race Theory: Understanding the Real Threat By Eugene R. Schlesinger A bit over a year ago, America watched a man be murdered by the police. George Floyd’s murder was preceded, of course, by the death of Breonna Taylor at the hands of the police, and the hunting down and killing of Ahmaud Arbery by a... Read More...
What’s Lust Got To Do With It?: When “Sex Fixation” and Racial Bias Meet By Pamela A. Lewis Let China sleep, for when she awakens the world will tremble. Although there has been disagreement as to whether Napoleon Bonaparte made this statement, it was often cited to describe the e... Read More...
On Apocalyptic Mobs By Mark Perkins “He who holds to the truth holds to God.” — Romano Guardini A mob is an apocalypse, a conflagration casting fiery light on what was previously in shadow. On August 12, 2017, we watched sc... Read More...
I Am a Child: Why Adultification Bias Contradicts the Christian View of Children By Pamela A. Lewis Like so many recent samples of footage showing police officers interacting with community residents, this was one that could not be un-seen: the mother of an unidentified nine-year-old Rochester girl had called the police because the girl... Read More...
Race and Reserve in the High Church Tradition: A Doctoral Thesis Report By Brandt L. Montgomery Like many of my colleagues here on Covenant either have done or are in the process of doing, for the past five years, I have been studying for a doctoral degree. While most of them ei... Read More...
How We Tell the Story (Or, How Christian Nationalism Makes Racism Invisible) By Abigail Woolley Cutter We declared our independence on July 4, 1776. We fought and defeated the British in the Revolutionary War. We expanded across the West. We won World War II. Statements like the... Read More...
