Responding to Colonialism

Responding to Colonialism

The movement to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day challenges Christians like me to confront my own faith tradition’s complex history and, at times, complicity with empire. As a student of and participant in Christian mission, I feel that burden acutely; but I also...
Lott Carey’s 125th Annual Session

Lott Carey’s 125th Annual Session

Over 400 disciples met in New Orleans, Louisiana, this week to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Lott Carey Global Christian Missional Community. African American Baptists committed to international missions, meeting since 1897, gather to discuss strategizing and...
Loyal and Critical: A Lesson Well Learned

Loyal and Critical: A Lesson Well Learned

Professor Bill Hoyt, chair of the department of religion and philosophy, returned what we students of old called “term papers” – pecked out on a typewriter and smeared with the brushed-on, corrective fluid branded as Wite-Out. It was my first research paper in an...