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...
Read MoreBlack culture
The Great White Messiah
What if MAGA is not merely a political movement, but a restoration theology shaped by white messianic longing, apocalyptic fear, and the salvific promise of supremacy itself? To understand Christian nationalism, we must stop treating it as political hypocrisy and begin examining it as racialized messianic theology.
Read More
Michael & Joe — The Ambitions of the Family Patriarch
What if the tragedy of Michael Jackson was never merely celebrity, but a lifetime spent laboring beneath the intertwined theologies of patriarchy, performance, and profit?
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More