Power to the People (Women’s Rights Remix)
Power to the People “Turn it up! Turn it up! Power to the people, y’all!” –Public Enemy, Power to the People By now you have heard of the class-action suit against Wal-Mart and this week’s decision...
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From Ferguson to the Washington Football Team
The one thing that can describe everything in my Facebook feed today is this: all of our news right now involves victims of racism. We can call it something else, because we white folks want to feel...
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Why Religious Freedom Acts are Code for Open Discrimination
In the last few years, we’ve seen a flurry of new bills coming out of state houses addressing religious liberty. They reveal an earnest desire to protect religious freedom. In practice, however, they...
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Kalief Browder, Held at Rikers Island for 3 Years Without Trial, Commits Suicide The fact that Kalief Browder was innocent is a tragedy. The fact that his mother found his lifeless body is a tragedy....
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My deeply held religious belief
I’ve grown quite tired of the phrase “deeply held belief”. It has been coming up a lot lately, especially with that interesting woman from Kentucky. Or those people with the restaurant or the one with...
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From Ferguson to the Washington Football Team
The one thing that can describe everything in my Facebook feed today is this: all of our news right now involves victims of racism. We can call it something else, because we white folks want to feel...
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Why Religious Freedom Acts are Code for Open Discrimination
In the last few years, we’ve seen a flurry of new bills coming out of state houses addressing religious liberty. They reveal an earnest desire to protect religious freedom. In practice, however, they...
View ArticleInnocence
Kalief Browder, Held at Rikers Island for 3 Years Without Trial, Commits Suicide The fact that Kalief Browder was innocent is a tragedy. The fact that his mother found his lifeless body is a tragedy....
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My deeply held religious belief
I’ve grown quite tired of the phrase “deeply held belief”. It has been coming up a lot lately, especially with that interesting woman from Kentucky. Or those people with the restaurant or the one with...
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Can we build a wall? Refugees, immigration, and hospitality.
I crossed our northern border into Canada often in the mid-2000s. As an American student at a Canadian seminary, I remember the border patrol finding that idea confusing. “Why would you go to school...
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