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.

The fierce urgency of Earth Day

by Alex Mikulich

Apr 7, 2020

Decolonizing Faith and Society: The neoliberal economy and market democracy by which we live is killing us and the planet. We North Americans need to begin with (un)learning how coloniality lives inside of us.

Dear white readers: Don't look away from the violence within you

by Alex Mikulich

Mar 7, 2020

Decolonizing Faith and Society: Dear white reader, before you retreat to the safety of self-perceived innocence, stop and dwell with the ways our African American brothers and sisters see us.

A woman prays on the second evening of an African American Catholic revival celebration Feb. 6, 2018, at St. Rita's Catholic Church in San Diego. (CNS/David Maung)

Are you open to praying to a black God?

by Alex Mikulich

Feb 7, 2020

Decolonizing Faith and Society: There are numerous ways Catholics who believe they are white can take time and space to dwell in and learn from black Americans and Black History Month in February.

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.

Columns ›

The fierce urgency of Earth Day

Dear white readers: Don't look away from the violence within you

Are you open to praying to a black God?

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