Religion

We are more than just good or bad: How the God of the Binary fails Black people

How theology based on a “one true god” cuts Black people off from necessary indigenous practices

The God Shop, Part 3

Comic: You Chose Your Christian God, Now Let Us Chill With Ours

The God Shop, Part 2

The God Shop, Part 1

The Child and The Question Asker, a short story

Millennials aren’t skipping church, the Black Church is skipping us

How unchoosing inherited religion taught me that the glue is our relationships

Comic: Some Black folks do Witchcraft. Get over it.

Somewhere over the rainbow: Reading the Pride symbol as a queering of the Bible

‘Mixed-ish’ and the anti-Black myth of post-racial insulated societies

How tourists make cultures like Salvador’s into “exotic” commodities for their consumption

Finding our way back to the religions stolen from our ancestors

The Christianity I was taught didn’t align with my values. ‘The Color Purple’ helped me reimagine religion

White feminist Paganism and the colonization of Heaven and Earth

Southern Baptists signal move away from conservatism with election of youngest president in 37 years

Black boy gone: Why this former minister left the church behind

Conservative Christian colleges stuck between fear of laws around LGBTQ discrimination and fear of change

How “Christianity is the white man’s religion” feeds the damaging disconnect between the Diaspora and Africa

“Family Feud” video leads to a feud between the Catholic League and Jay-Z

The Black church isn’t one-dimensional either: How Gullah-Geechee people subvert Christianity to retain Black history

For Christians, Christmas shouldn’t just be a celebration, but a time to recommit to Black liberation

My Black girl magic is not the work of God

The Black church taught me to be a docile victim, and now I renounce its lessons

How growing up in what some called a religious “cult” helped me make sense of police abolition

The Black church can engage more Black millennials by bringing politics back into the pulpit

How Different are Americans and Europeans, actually?

Survey: White Christians Don’t Believe Black Experiences with Police Violence

Wheaton College Plans to Terminate Black Woman Professor Who Wore Hijab

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