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...
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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?
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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
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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Whose Fruit Are ‘Ye?
Whose fruit is Kanye West? A critical engagement of Jesus is King and the commercialization of Christian conversion.
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White People Do Anything for Clout & Other Shit Black People Been Knew.
50 people, including Hollywood elites Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy and Lori Loughlin, have been arrested for bribing college admissions for their kids.
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