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The Trauma of Color & the Crisis of Christianity: On the book Jesus Land

by J. Kameron Carter on August 25, 2010

The Point of the Book
Jesus Land, a memoir by Julia Scheeres, documents how Christianity operated as a disruptive force in Scheeres’ childhood and adolescence, working to thwart the deep bond of love, affection, and family she had with her adopted black brother, David.
What the book captures in her life story is a profound pathology, a [...]

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The Catastrophe of Political Theology: On Paik’s From Utopia to Apocalypse

by J. Kameron Carter August 14, 2010
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I would like to commend a book that I have found most interesting in light of recent reflection I have been doing on christology and eschatology. It is Peter Y. Paik’s book From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), which examines discourses of revolution through the [...]

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Frederick Douglass on Expanding Liberty: A Quick Post-Independence Day Reflection

by J. Kameron Carter July 6, 2010
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Toward an American Theology of Freedom
In 1962, when the civil rights fervor in our country was approaching a tipping point, the great theologian Karl Barth made his one and only trip to the United States. (Of course, I have to get Barth in here given the extensive study I’m doing of him in relation to [...]

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Dorothy Height, Civil Rights Matriarch: In Memoriam

by J. Kameron Carter April 20, 2010
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Known as the matriarch of the American civil rights movement, Dorothy Height, we learned this morning, has died at the age of 98. As Du Bois did in the aftermath of the first World War throughout the decades of the 1920s, Height worked tirelessly and fearlessly in the years following World War II for racial [...]

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Maundy Thursday; or, The Betrayal of Our Betrayal

by J. Kameron Carter April 1, 2010
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Betrayal

The gospel reading for Maundy Thursday is John 13:1–17, 31b–35. Today is the day on the Christian calendar that leads into the three most sacred days of Holy Week: Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. Our reading captures the twofold dimensions of this day, that which set it apart as a fitting start [...]

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