Stand Your Ground
The laws Douglas names—Stand Your Ground, Stop and Frisk, Conceal and Carry, mandatory drug sentencing—are not simply unjust policies. They are structures of sin, systems that deny life and thrive on the subordination of certain bodies.
White Women's Christ, Black Women's Jesus
By Matt Stone
Introduction
Jacquelyn Grant's White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus is
Jesus Christ was Not White
A theology that cannot survive honest scrutiny cannot ultimately sustain the communities it seeks to serve.
Deotis Roberts: Liberation and Reconciliation
By Matt Stone
J. Deotis Roberts’s Liberation and Reconciliation argues that Black theology must hold liberation and reconciliation together.
Theodicy, Suffering, and Liberation
A Reflection on William R. Jones’ Is God a White Racist?
Introduction
Few theological texts in American religious history have
The Black Messiah
Reflections on Albert Cleage Jr.by Matt Stone
Albert Cleage Jr.’s The Black Messiah argues that Christianity in America
God is Red
By Matt Stone
Vine Deloria Jr.'s God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, first published in 1973
Stand Your Ground
Written by Matt Stone
A Reflection on Kelly Brown Douglas’ Stand Your Ground
In Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and
James Cone and A Black Theology of Liberation
Matt Stone
James H. Cone’s A Black Theology of Liberation argues that Christian theology cannot be neutral, abstract, or