We dare to make due out of the scraps given to us by creating new things out of the old, salvaging things that seem lost, bringing life to spaces where death once reigned, rolling away the proverbial stone and resurrecting. It is only through the story of Black people in this country that Christianity has an American relevance at all.
Colonizers show readiness to consign both their own children and ours to the flames of global warming rather than risk giving up global hegemony maintained primarily through capitalism.
Although African rituals were retained by Black Christians, much of what spawned them was shrouded in codes that must now be deciphered in order to regain its regenerative power.
It’s almost as if it’s not a real social movement if a Black woman is not almost killing herself to do this work.
In an unhealed state, inflicting pain is the only way we know divinity.
By Hassan Xavier Henderson-Lott “...we have watched for a nation that could not save us. They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets...” - Lamentations 4:18 I’m angry. For over two weeks, I have attempted to, at best,…
by Paul Daniels, II I am male. I am Black. I am Queer. I am Christian. I speak from a place of psychological, existential, and theological privilege: the product of a Black church in the American South whose 12-year-old mind…
I’ve found home in myself, and that whisper within promises that it is okay to never hide the God I serve.
Child sexual abuse has for long been brushed under the rug and/or deemed unimportant for sermonic consideration.
We should all seek to understand the ways we’ve actively perpetuated violence, or willfully remain complicit in the harm of others.
