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Trauma | ethics | James Baldwin

James Baldwin and the Cost of Community

Denying that there is persistent brokenness in the world, we have concluded that everything wrong comes from structures that rest on ideologies we oppose. ...

November 9, 2023

Martin Luther King Jr. | contested humanity | Ethel Lance | Emanuel AME Church | Alexander Stephens | Louis Farrakhan | Gaspar Yanga | Cheryl Townsend Gilkes | James Baldwin | Rituals | forgiveness

Martin Luther King Jr. "Nonviolence Is the Sword That Heals

Forgiveness and mercy...

January 14, 2016

democracy | Moral Monday | politics | political partisanship | civic solidarity | theology | public conversation | James Baldwin | Julien Benda | North Carolina | citizenship | society

Thinking Religion and Democracy in Dark Times -- Corey D. B. Walker

For many scholars and commentators, religion represents a unique challenge to democratic politics...

November 13, 2014