Abraham and Sarah, Slaveholders The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner July 31, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, Exegesis, The Episcopal Church By Ephraim Radner Abraham and Sarah were slaveholders. Eliezer and Hagar were their slaves. The following is but a brief reflection on how we have interpreted this uncomfortable fact. It offers no grand clai... Read More...
Uncomfortable Genealogy Guest Contributor April 22, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church By Richard Mammana The Yankee is comfortable in his complacency about racial inequality in the United States, imagining himself unsullied by the slaving stains of American history. I was such a one until I b... Read More...
Healing the Breach: Thinking Theologically About Reparations Guest Contributor February 12, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church We’ve reached a point in the history of our nation, our Church, and our Communion when we need to balance celebration of gains made in reconciliation and community building with ongoing and disciplined excavations of the “stony road” people of African descent have traversed.
Never forget, never again: Keeping Civil War memorials Brandt Montgomery March 15, 2017 Commentary, The Episcopal Church We must acknowledge the good, but also the bad, of our past — memories of deliverance, but also that from which we were delivered.
Dispatch from a white priest in Dallas Will Brown July 18, 2016 Commentary Like many people, I feel a sense of foreboding about what is coming on our nation and our world.
Zombies, pop culture, and the wage slave Nathan Jennings March 31, 2016 Commentary Perhaps the zombie may be a myth at home in the post-Christendom of late modern society.
Honor, shame, and the Gospel in the American South: Part I Jody Howard March 30, 2015 Commentary This series of posts discusses the honor-shame dynamic of the American South, a Christian challenge to injustice that takes into account the region's social paradigm, and Jackson Wu's "4 Keys to Evangelism in Honor-Shame Cultures."
