n this interview, Sister Helen Prejean of ‘Dead Man Walking’ fame tells about her fight to overturn the death penalty and save innocent men and women on death row.

The mental and moral shift from denial of injustice to consciousness of injustice is often made at very high cost. Ursula K. Le Guin, “A War Without End,” in The Wave in the Mind In February 2016, the young Black Lives Matter activist and community organizer MarShawn McCarrel ended his own life on the steps […]

I (Brandy) remember the first time I was considering graduate school and reached out to one of my favorite professors for advice. I expected feedback about where to apply and what to do or not do in my application materials. Instead, my professor spent the majority of the hour trying to talk me out of […]

The white walls and thatched roof of Shakespeare’s Globe overlook the Thames in London’s Bankside district. Since its opening in 1997, productions staged in this reconstruction of the outdoor theater owned by William Shakespeare’s playing company have adhered to what scholars call “original practice” principles: they loosely approximate the conditions that governed performances in the […]

Her eyes filled with terror at the sight of me, and she sped out of that South Carolina parking lot, tires screeching. I stood there holding my jumper cables and feeling confused, shocked, and ashamed. I’d forgotten to turn off the headlights on my old Honda. and my car battery was dead. I thought I […]

Dominique Gilliard, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2021). Stephen Preskill, Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center’s Vision for Social Justice (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021). I once asked my students at a largely white, evangelical private school whether they considered themselves privileged. […]

Tejai Beulah explores US Christianity from the perspective of a formerly enslaved grandmother.

Charles Marsh wants to free Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s life from its scholarly confinements.

An ecotheological anthropology, according to Catherine Wright, appreciates inspirited matter and embodied spirit.