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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Gender & Power Love &. Relationships Race Sexuality
Essays exploring identity, belonging, selfhood, embodiment, memory, spirituality, race, gender, and the emotional formation of the self within culture, religion, and public life. Identity examines how power, survival, faith, and social systems shape the ways people understand themselves, their communities, and their place in the world.
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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The Weight of the Cape: Why Am I Afraid to be Broken?
We often ask the wrong questions in an effort to avoid the answers we do not wish to hear. A personal reflection on mental health and therapy.
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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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#ThingsOnlyBlackChristianWomenHear: Women Sound off on Twitter about Sexism & the Church
#ThingsOnlyBlackChristianWomenHear: a hashtag about the ways Black Christian women suffer in public ministry and in the church.
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Don’t Blame Mental Illness for Steve Stephens, Blame Toxic Masculinity.
Steve Stephens began a crime spree that ended in tragedy for multiple families and his suicide. Examining toxic masculinity the real culprit.
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