the daily asterisk

All our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that…

When a nation recalls its complex history, it needs to confess explicitly its nation-forming sins as well as blessings, and cast the whole project…

Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by,…

I defer to no one in my love for America and for Christianity. I have devoted my life to the study of both of…

All things must be restored to Christ; our bodies were redeemed too. Children should be learning healthy and holy attitudes unconsciously as well as consciously…

I propose that every theological system also has an associated sociology, such that we can fully understand the claims of a theological perspective only…

At the onset of the Civil War, our stolen bodies were worth four billion dollars, more than all of American industry, all of American…

Fie, fie upon her! There’s language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every…

Our big ideas have nowhere to happen but bodies. In this sense, my religion is the shape my love takes, the direct devotion of…

It seems like the popular imagination persists in thinking of God as, I don’t know what, some sort of noble stoic man in the…