In this interview, Seattle singer, songwriter, musician, artist Tara Ward (Late Tuesday, Urban Hymnal, Opiate Mass) discusses her first solo concept album, REVELATIONS OF A BLUE JACKET, a collaborative piece that included the work of a dozen visual artists.
In this essay, Kelly Johnson explores the categories of comedy and tragedy as she considers how we might stay informed about social injustices, suffering, and human rights violations and yet maintain and nurture Christian joy.
Dan Rhodes talks to Chris Rice about the catastrophic failures, flashes of redemption, and possibilities for hope in a world of pain and conflict.
A review of J. Kameron Carter’s recently published book, RACE: A THEOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
In this interview, the poet Marilyn Nelson discusses the role of community in a writer’s life, especially the kind of community she aims to foster at Soul Mountain Retreat, a writers’ colony she founded.
In this interview, the poet Marilyn Nelson discusses the role of community in a writer’s life, especially the kind of community she aims to foster at Soul Mountain Retreat, a writers’ colony she founded.
A review of Peter Goodwin Heltzel’s JESUS AND JUSTICE, a book that traces the historical legacy of evangelicalism, particularly in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr. and Carl F. H. Henry; describes the impact of this legacy on four contemporary evangelical organizations; and suggests new ways of understanding race and political life in America.
In this review, John Totten considers the Coen brothers’ latest film, A SERIOUS MAN, and how it speaks to our understanding of life and God.
In this essay, philosopher James K. A. Smith considers the theological implications of free speech in dialogue with Michel Foucault, cinema verité, and the award winning film, BURMA VJ. This essay was given as a lecture at the 2009 Film, Faith, and Justice Forum in Seattle, WA on October 16th, 2009.
In this interview, artist Barry Moser discusses racism, religion, and working amidst mystery.
Allen Yeh discusses how living as an ethnic Asian in America can make one feel like a perpetual foreigner.
Abdel Shakur offers a reading of Michael Jackson’s music video “The Way You Make Me Feel” that exposes cultural stereotypes about biracial women.
In this poem by Adam Falkner, an awkward teenager endlessly practices his Michael Jackson dance moves.
Paul Jaussen reviews Žižek and Milbank’s THE MONSTROSITY OF CHRIST.
Through her paintings and contemporary installation art, Natalie Ball deconstructs known narratives of the Native American past and reconstructs them, intersecting her own stories with history by considering the authenticity of belonging, especially as defined by blood quantum, tribal binds, and ethnographic portraiture.
In this poem, Allison Joseph reveals the truth about public transportation: it’s public.
This essay articulates how Derrida’s notion of hospitality may help us to overcome structural racism.
D. Stephen Long’s most recent book, SPEAKING OF GOD, probes the importance of metaphysics for theology, ecclesiology, and politics.
This poem by Carolyne Wright reflects on race-related tension between teaching assistants at the University of Washington in the 1960s.
Racial reconciliation and the parable of the Good Samaritan are both centered on rightly defining who owns what.
A poem in the ghazal form that elegizes Emmett Till, an African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman.
Asian Americans are perhaps the fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States, and their rapid population growth represents a pivotal moment in our history, a moment where traditional ethnic enclave ideas need to be reconsidered.
In this wide-ranging interview, Jeffrey Stout discusses themes from his 2004 book DEMOCRACY AND TRADITION, including such topics as religion, democracy, secularism, piety, and the intellectual orientation he, following Stanley Cavell, calls “Emersonian Perfectionism.”
In this wide-ranging interview, Jeffrey Stout discusses themes from his 2004 book DEMOCRACY AND TRADITION, including such topics as religion, democracy, secularism, piety, and the intellectual orientation he, following Stanley Cavell, calls “Emersonian Perfectionism.”
This exhibit, which is currently showing at the New Museum in New York City, showcases the works of Emory Douglas, a former Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party.
Willie Jennings discusses the racial disfigurement of the Christian social imagination and how its heritage continues to plague our view of people and the world.
A review of Paul Louis Metzger’s CONSUMING JESUS: BEYOND RACE AND CLASS DIVISIONS IN A CONSUMER CHURCH.
An interview with Cornel West on a range of issues, including politics, religion, power, language, the economy, and race.
If Christians are to account for race in their lives, it must be seen as a matter of discipleship.