Kendrick Lamar’s Coded Hymns
The Super Bowl halftime show wasn’t just performance. It was a setlist sermon about Black survival, coded language, and the politics of being “Not Like Us.” It’s Tight, But It’s Right “I’m not here to...
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Essays in cultural criticism, public theology, media analysis, politics, and spiritual interpretation examining how power, race, religion, gender, technology, and empire shape contemporary life. Cultural Witness explores the sacred and social meaning beneath internet discourse, celebrity, art, grief, and collective memory.
What If I’m Only Human?
Black women are often told we suffer from imposter syndrome, but that language misses the deeper wound. Through The Wiz, Black Girl Magic, and the burden of being endlessly useful, this essay names the fear that our humanity will be mistaken for fraudulence after a lifetime of being expected to perform godhood.
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This Ain’t a Hot Take: Cheyenne Bryant
The public thinks the Cheyenne Bryant discourse is about fraudulence. But beneath the outrage is a deeper grief: the collapse of institutional authority in the age of algorithm culture.
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I’m Done Sharecropping on Borrowed Social Media Lands
After years of building intellectual life on platforms I do not own, I am bringing my public scholarship back to Unfit Christian. This is not nostalgia for blogging. It is a return to owned land, archive, sovereignty, and the publication world my work has always deserved.
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In A World of Aventer Grays, Be a Cardi B.
I honestly could end this post by the headline alone, but that would leave too much room for you to deny that you’re once again projecting your bullshit onto Cardi B. So here we are....
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Jesus Sings the Blues, Too.
God hasn't given us a spirit of fear. So why am I terrified? Navigating faith, fear, and hope during the coronavirus/COVID-19 global pandemic.
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