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Essentials

These essays offer a doorway into the core questions that have shaped this work for more than a decade:

What does faith become when disentangled from supremacy?
What does Blackness reveal about God, power, embodiment, and survival?
What harms have been sanctified in the name of holiness?
What does liberation require of our theology, our politics, our bodies, and our memo

I’m Done Sharecropping on Borrowed Social Media Lands
Black Public Affairs ► May 15, 2026

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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It Ain’t Demonic, It’s Demanding
Conjure & ATRs ► May 13, 2026

It Ain’t Demonic, It’s Demanding

Black spiritual inheritance is being labeled demonic in a moment shaped by Christian nationalism. But the real threat was never our ancestors, rituals, or Blackness. The threat is a faith that requires us to bury our memory to prove our devotion.

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Dear Church Folk: I Wish Y’all Would STFU About Ancestor Veneration
Deconstruction ► August 21, 2020

Dear Church Folk: I Wish Y’all Would STFU About Ancestor Veneration

We get it. You think everything you can't explain is demonic. But could you believe that in silence?

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I’m Sorry, Sis, But Boaz Is Never Coming.
Deconstruction ► November 3, 2017

I’m Sorry, Sis, But Boaz Is Never Coming.

The story of Ruth & Boaz has been sold to Christian women as a model for courtship for years. But is it really what we make it out to be?

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I’m Tired of Explaining Racism to You.
Essentials ► August 13, 2017

I’m Tired of Explaining Racism to You.

The open racism displayed in Charlottesville, VA is not a one-off anomaly. Blacks have long since called a spade a spade: America is *still* racist.

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Exodus: Why Black Millennials Are Leaving the Church
Deconstruction ► May 11, 2017

Exodus: Why Black Millennials Are Leaving the Church

Black Millennials are not a generation lost, the church simply hasn't made themselves a home to be found. On why Millennials are leaving the Black church.

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