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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 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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Can’t We All Just Get Along? The Tensions of Black Queerness, Womanhood, & the Cross
Essentials ► May 4, 2017

Can’t We All Just Get Along? The Tensions of Black Queerness, Womanhood, & the Cross

Is Black Male Queerness an enemy of Black Women? An Op-Ed on the tensions of Black Gay men, Black women, & their place in the Black church.

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Fires We Make: Why I’m Giving up Hell for Lent
Deconstruction ► March 1, 2017

Fires We Make: Why I’m Giving up Hell for Lent

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16 Amazing Must-Reads for the Budding Progressive Christian
Deconstruction ► February 11, 2017

16 Amazing Must-Reads for the Budding Progressive Christian

How do you become 'woke' and Christian while Black? A curated round-up of the best voices of Progressive Christianity on racism, sexism, & more.

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