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...
TV and film
It’s so nice to visit England. It’s even more delightful to time travel back to the years before the Second World War, remembered nostalgically through the...
Born in 1897, Catholic Worker cofounder Dorothy Day lived from the dawn of the U.S. empire in the Spanish-American War to the November 1980 election of Ronald...
For the past 21 years, I’ve taught at historically Black colleges, and several times during those years the theater department has either hosted or produced a...
Read Broken Signposts By N. T. Wright (HarperOne, 2020) In Broken Signposts, N. T. Wright reveals fresh insights into the story of Jesus Christ in the Gospel...
I have little to no interest in “Christian films.” I find most boring and trite, seldom saying anything that feeds my soul. Neat or sanitized affirmations of...
Read The Great Belonging By Charlotte Donlon (Broadleaf Books, 2020) “The book you are holding does not aim to cure your loneliness,” states the foreword of...
Black Lives Matter. In 2013 Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi crafted the phrase. It was a cry, a protest, and a new way of political organizing...
Parents with more than one child know this already: Babies show up with personalities, differences, and strong attitudes toward broccoli, music, and siblings...
The movie Hillbilly Elegy arrived in theaters just a few days after the 2020 presidential election was decided. It started streaming on Netflix two weeks later...
