Decolonizing Faith and Society

Alex Mikulich's monthly column questions the oppressive side of Western modernity and Christianity to imagine communal futures in which the Earth and all people may fully thrive.

A Trump flag flies in Logan, Ohio. (Wikimedia Commons/Dan Keck)

American idolatry places faith in 'chosen one' Trump

by Alex Mikulich

Jan 9, 2020

Decolonizing Faith and Society: As collective fanaticism condones the president's unbridled brutality, the deeper malaise is the way too many seem to put more faith in redemptive violence than in the Gospel.

Preparing the way for the Black Christ

by Alex Mikulich

Dec 10, 2019

Decolonizing Faith and Society: Until people of faith who believe that they are white contend with and dwell in the reality of blackness in America, we will not be prepared to become a prophetic counter-witness to the deceitful powers that seek to destroy the birth of God's love in the world today.

In our societal dark night, contemplation roots authentic revolution

by Alex Mikulich

Nov 8, 2019

Decolonizing Faith and Society: While we rightly sense the urgency for revolutionary action, the desire for change is not without pitfalls. But Sophia Wisdom draws us into a wholly different way of proceeding.

Shanenawa people dance Sept. 1 during a festival to celebrate nature and ask for an end to the burning of the Amazon, in the indigenous village of Morada Nova near Feijo, Brazil. (CNS/Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)

Indigenous scholars invite decolonization of the Anthropocene

by Alex Mikulich

Oct 8, 2019

Decolonizing Faith and Society: Will we white settlers turn toward a new way of being? Will we co-sense our interconnectedness and obligations with and for diverse human kin and other-than-human kin?

Columns ›

American idolatry places faith in 'chosen one' Trump

Preparing the way for the Black Christ

In our societal dark night, contemplation roots authentic revolution

Indigenous scholars invite decolonization of the Anthropocene

It's time for sustained mass civil disobedience

We need to fast from violence in ourselves and our nation

Working to live or living to work?

Eucharistic intimacy calls us to transform a destructive food system

The dangerous memory of Jesus Christ calls us to enact reparations

From Laborem Exercens to AOC: why I'm a Catholic Democratic Socialist

Time to live the politically impossible art of the Gospel

To work toward a just society, we need a Green New Deal