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The Great White Messiah
PUBLIC THEOLOGY ► May 18, 2026

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.

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Michael & Joe — The Ambitions of the Family Patriarch
PRACTICAL THEOLOGY ► May 16, 2026

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
Black Public Affairs ► May 15, 2026

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
Conjure & ATRs ► May 13, 2026

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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White Supremacy Murdered Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King & Now Uses Him as a Capitalist Prop.
PUBLIC THEOLOGY ► February 5, 2018

White Supremacy Murdered Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King & Now Uses Him as a Capitalist Prop.

Fiat Chrysler is being heavily criticized online for its use of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words in its Ram Trucks Super Bowl commercial -- and rightfully so. Dr. King's legacy is not intended to be reduced to caricaturized soundbites for to give us all the good feels. Op-Ed by D. Danyelle Thomas

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Losing It: I Left the Church & Never Looked Back.
Deconstruction ► December 8, 2017

Losing It: I Left the Church & Never Looked Back.

I remember the exact moment I knew I would not be coming back to church. When I reflect on that moment as a woman in her 40s, I am crystal clear on why.

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