In March 2021 FutureChurch hosted a talk on women in Catholic media, hosted by Heidi Schlumpf, executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter. Schlumpf...
Racial Justice
Rev. Angela N. Parker is a womanist New Testament scholar at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology. The refrain “I can’t breathe” is a rallying cry for...
The past two years have been exceptional years of human existence. Here in the United States, while we were trying to survive and resolve a world pandemic...
I found myself incredibly angry in 2020. It seemed to be the year where all the tension inside me, all the injustice around me, all the indifference I was...
“I attended Mother McAuley as a white student from Mount Greenwood. Issues surrounding race didn’t affect me. Today, I have Hispanic daughters who attend...
The 2010 earthquake, catastrophic flooding in 2016, a deadly hurricane in 2020: It seems that whenever Haiti is in the news, it’s in connection with a disaster...
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins’ Amazon Prime series The Underground Railroad, adapted from Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel, is a 10-part mind-bending, gut...
Recently, during breakfast with a good friend, the conversation suddenly became tense when I made a comment about critical race theory (CRT). My friend felt...
“Why are people so mean?” asked my friend’s first grader last summer as we tried to explain what happened to George Floyd. As my friend’s children learned the...
Judas and the Black Messiah Directed by Shaka King (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2021) It has been more than 50 years since the FBI conspired with the Chicago Police...