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Racism—Sociology & Theology

Sociological analysis can reveal troubling patterns of racism. But Christians are also equipped with theological tools to engage such patterns.

Court Dismisses Charges Against Self-Excommunicating Priest

Cayce Ramey appealed the decision of a hearing panel that he should be deposed for his action, which he meant as an act of protest against racial injustice.

Indigenous Day of Remembrance Authorized

The remembrance is part of the church’s commitment to repenting of the Indian boarding school movement’s sins.

Vermont Bishop Has Faced Dissension and Racial Conflict

Shannon MacVean-Brown was consecrated just a few months before the pandemic.

Honor, Shame, and the Gospel in the American South, Part III

Previous essays in this series have explored the matrix of an honor-shame culture in American Southern history, and how the American church found itself...

Uncle Tom or New Negro? A Black Episcopalian’s Reflections on Booker T. Washington

Robert Norrell’s Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington (2009) was the first full-length biography of the late 19th- and early 20th-century...

Let’s Put ‘Woke’ to Rest

My social media algorithms like to put a feed in front of me featuring excerpts of “woke” Christian teachers. (I don’t name the source,...

A Priest-Educator’s Response to Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

By Brandt Montgomery The United States Supreme Court recently released a landmark decision concerning affirmative action in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and...

The Next Two Theologies

In the summer of 2020, while city streets around the world were flooded with Black Lives Matter demonstrations, British theologian John Milbank offered a...

Sewanee Strives to Transform Its Culture

“As the Episcopal Church undergoes this reckoning with race, Sewanee’s actually quite well placed to be part of that conversation.”

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