I hesitated to post this so quickly after a great Shark Week here at Daily Theology, but given the 500th anniversary this Reformation Day, I wanted to contribute just a few brief thoughts. As a […]
Finding Sainthood: An Academic Contribution to Nicholas Black Elk’s Cause for Canonization
By Michael Steltenkamp, S.J. A well-known passage in the New Testament reports an incident that took place after the resurrection of Jesus (Luke 24:13-36). The scene depicts two of his disciples walking on a road […]
Academic talk is not racial justice
by Luis Menéndez-Antuña Last May the topic of “racial talk” wreaked havoc on the Philosophy guild. Hypatia, a leading international journal in Feminist and Gender Studies, published an article authored by Rebecca Tuvel called “In […]
What Does It Mean to Call Racism “America’s Original Sin”?
In America’s Original Sin, Jim Wallis challenges white Americans to consider their complicity and need for repentance in the face of America’s historically pervasive racial injustice. His central insight can be summed up simply and […]
Collective Ownership of the Earth Forever and Ever, Amen!
By Andrew Krinks “whiteness is the ownership of the earth forever and ever, Amen!”– W. E. B. Du Bois[1] Racial injustice originates with the godlike power of whiteness to possess the earth exclusively, which means […]
White Honesty: Virtue and Privilege in the Age of Charlottesville
by Daniel A. Morris It is strange to use “in the age of Charlottesville” in the subtitle of a post on racism in America. As if what happened at the “Unite the Right” rally in […]
Catholics and the Sin of White Supremacy
By Eric Martin. The Catholic Church must have a long and honest communal examination after none of its clergy showed up in Charlottesville on August 12. Muslims and Jews, despite their vulnerable status, arrived ready […]
Race, Roots, and Blood
By Andrew Prevot, Ph.D. Roots What do you love more, hearts of flesh or idols of stone? This is the question I would pose to anyone worried about statues. Let those useless attachments go. Love […]
The End of Racism? (Not Really).
In the wake of Barack Obama’s 2008 historic election as the first black president of the United States of America, pundits, reporters, politicians, and scholars scrambled to declare the race question over. In its congratulatory […]
Holy Communion and Unholy Indifference
“Racism opposes the order of Eucharist.” -M. Shawn Copeland, Enfleshing Freedom (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2010), 109. Living in rural Minnesota, like in many rural areas of the United States, I inhabit a context where most […]
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