Race
In a Cleveland neighborhood, a set of 25 young trees line the space between the sidewalk and the road. The trees were planted by volunteers from Calvary Reformed Church in 2019, an example of the types of actions that churches can take to address rising heat in their neighborhoods. Now, thanks to 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, nearly $1 billion will fund similar projects across the nation.
What remains for all who’ve hit rock bottom is the long road to healing.
I spent a year collecting ethnographic data in a predominantly white, conservative, Christian K-12 school. It troubled me that my tax dollars were being used to support the kinds of teaching and discriminatory admissions practices I witnessed.
That’s how fragile black life in the U.S. is. Our risk of being killed by police hinges on little things like the weather.
These types of failures in the voting process may become additional tools in the arsenal of voter suppression, and the Black community must be prepared.
In Exodus, the Egyptians shed innocent blood. Then God made this blood visible for all to see.
Burton and Dreher share similar aesthetic views about Christianity and the past.
When will the lives of black people ever matter to America? Black people are tired.
What value is there in circulating a depiction of innocent black death?
Governor Kemp's COVID-19 response, and the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, replay a longer history.
When we started questing the bible, everything falls apart. What can we even trust or believe in? But I think the second fear is that it will drive a wedge between us and this community that is really important to us especially as Asian Americans because we’re a super community oriented culture. So I think that a lot of Asian American Christians are afraid to do that and I think for legitimate reasons. Those fears are not unwarranted.
There’s no such thing as an objective critic, or objective criteria by which any of us could judge a movie. The question is whether the critic, or the audience, is able to be honest about the criteria they are using. So I’ll say something I’ve said before: By my sights, the purpose of art is to help us live better, and the best cinema occurs when technical and aesthetic craftsmanship operating at their highest frequencies, and a humane concern for the common good, kiss each other.
Meritocracy fails to give communities of color the comforts and privileges of mediocrity.
It's impossible to use the language of lynching without calling to mind horrors like those visited upon George Taylor.
Much like Isaac from the book of Genesis, I am the son of a family seemingly destined to transience.
On this day in 1791, an uprising of enslaved Africans on the island of Saint Domingue (modern Haiti) began.