Essential Essays
Unfit Christian has never been only a blog, a brand, or a collection of reactions to the world. It is an archive of Black religious thought, cultural witness, public theology, spiritual critique, and interior life.
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 memory?
This is not an exhaustive archive. It is a guided beginning.
Foundational Texts
These essays name the heart of Unfit Christian: faith beyond white supremacy, deconstruction beyond trend, and the sacred work of reclaiming spiritual authority.
- I’m Sorry, Sis, But Boaz Is Never Coming. Published: 2017
- The Cult of Heather Lindsey Published: 2017
- Dear Church Folk: I Wish Y’all Would STFU About Ancestor Veneration Published: 2020
- When Blackface Enters the Pulpit: Vicki Yohe, Paula White, & the Problem with the ‘Black Pass’ Published: 2017
- Even Jesus Flipped the Tables, So Why Are White Christians Silent? Published: 2016
Public Theology(See Archive)
Essays on faith, politics, justice, public morality, and the consequences of belief in the world we share.
- When White Supremacy is Bigger than God Published: 2016
- Black Pain, White Tears, & The Gospel of Racial Reconciliation Published: 2016
- Even Jesus Flipped the Tables, So Why Are White Christians Silent? Published: 2016
- For Folks Who Considered Losing It When God’s Control Ain’t Enough. Published: 2020
Cultural Witness(See Archive)
Essays reading culture, media, celebrity, spectacle, and public ritual as sites of moral and spiritual meaning.
- What ‘Dirty John’ Reveals About the Dangers of Faith Published: 2017
- “Not All Churches” is Not Enough. Published: 2018
- Whose Fruit Are ‘Ye? Published: 2019
- Jesus Sings the Blues Too Published: 2020
Embodied Faith(See Archive)
Essays on sexuality, illness, grief, shame, desire, purity culture, mental health, and the sacred complexity of living inside a body.
- Jesus Loves Hoes, This We Know. Published: 2017
- Hey Girl: Hoes Ain’t Won, You Just Lost Published: 2016
- I’m Sorry, Sis, But Boaz Is Never Coming. Published: 2017
- The Price of Purity Culture: Regrets, Faith, & Sexual Ethics Published: 2017
- If I’m Suicidal, Please Don’t Tell Me to Pray Published: 2016
Gender & Power(See Archive)
Essays on patriarchy, purity culture, modesty politics, Black womanhood, masculinity, relational labor, and the governance of bodies.
- Listen, Black Women Don’t Need Your Damned Fixing Published: 2017
- The Milk Is Never Free: The Value of a Woman’s Love Published: 2016
Black Interior Life (See Archive)
Essays where personal reflection becomes public work — meditations on exhaustion, longing, grief, illness, survival, faith, and the inner architecture of Black life.
- I’m Living in the Moment (& It Totally Sucks) Published: 2020
- Jesus Sings the Blues Too Published: 2020
- The Wiz Syndrome Published: TBD
- The Body Is Not a Meritocracy Published: 2026
Black Public Affairs(See Archive)
Essays examining politics, policy, history, media, empire, elections, civic literacy, and the material conditions shaping Black life.
- A Digital Sharecropper’s Retirement Published: TBD
- Want to Stop School Shootings & Change Gun Laws? Racism is the Answer. Published: 2018
- RBG is Dead, White Supremacy Lives Another Day. Published: 2020
- White Supremacy Murdered Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King & Now Uses Him as a Capitalist Prop Published: 2018