Our Cries for Equity
Brandon Wrencher offers a theological and liberationist reading of the story of Cain and Abel.
James Baldwin
Watching the World from Gethsemane: Darkness and the Devastated Self in Marilynne Robinson’s Fiction
Marilynne Robinson’s novels have become almost synonymous with loneliness, but solitude here remains entangled with a less acknowledged trope—an enveloping and dazzling darkness.
The Enduring World of Dr. Schultz: James Baldwin, Django Unchained, and the Crisis of Whiteness
Through the lens of James Baldwin’s black intellectual imagination, Quentin Tarantino’s slave revenge fantasy, Django Unchained, becomes a terrifying allegory of white progressive identity in America today.
Bearing the Silence: On James Baldwin and Prayer
Through an examination of the role of silence in James Baldwin’s novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, this paper explores how prayer can open up life within and beyond a racist, oppressive social order.
