by Craig Nash | Sep 3, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Dr. Jemar Tisby received wide acclaim for his 2019 book, “The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism.” In that work, the historian narrated how Christians in the U.S. have often been in lock-step with the wider culture at every...
by Jemar Tisby | Aug 9, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in Dr. Jemar Tisby’s Footnotes Substack. Tisby is a Good Faith Media Contributing Correspondent. In her newly released (and controversial) book, Shepherds for Sale, author Megan Basham quotes some of my writing. Basham’s book...
by Starlette Thomas | Aug 5, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
“Go tell it on the mountain!” James Arthur Baldwin would have been 100 years old on August 2nd. A century later, he has no equal. Baldwin is the patron saint of children who are “too smart for their own good.” Old souls “who have been here before,” he spoke for all of...
by K. Mekhi Jackson | Jul 31, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
“In the “lynching era,” between 1880 and 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men and women in a manner with obvious echoes of the Roman crucifixion of Jesus. Yet these “Christians” did not see the irony or contradiction in their actions,” James...
by Jamie Marich | Jul 23, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Last Wednesday, while many of my fellow Americans tuned in to watch J.D. Vance speak at the Republican National Convention, I watched the docuseries “Simone Biles: Rising.” The two-part series skillfully presents the events of Simone’s withdrawal from all but one of...
