Whiteness rooted in place
“All of our efforts at changing the social fabric of this country must begin with changing the geographic fabric.”
Caught up in God
Early on, I got caught up in the logic of the Spirit—and in the steady beat of black life.
European Christian missionaries and their false sense of progress
What does maturity look like? Whiteness is a horrific answer to this question.
A deeper, wiser story (1 Kings 3:5–12)
The left/right/center narrative helps us avoid difficult work.
Listen to the world's groaning (Romans 8:12–25)
Christians have long lived in denial of our deep creaturely connections.
July 30, Ordinary 17A (Romans 8:26–39; Matthew 13:31–33, 44–52)
We can be joined by our suffering, not just separated.
July 23, Ordinary 16A (Genesis 28:10–19a)
We have forgotten how to dream the land.
The wall of identity: Resident Aliens at 25
Resident Aliens affirmed the strange way we Americans deal with our racial history and its current realities by indirection, innuendo, and avoidance.
Willie James Jennings: 5 picks
We posed this question to eight theologians: Suppose someone told you they haven’t been keeping up with theology for the past 25 years. Now they want to read the most important books in theology that were written during that time. What five titles would you suggest?