For Delores Williams, the plight of Black women viewed through the biblical archetype of faith, Hagar, illustrates that Black women have been unavoidably shaped by the problems and desires of those who oppress them.
Commentary: Nearly 50 years after her death, Josephine Baker has a message for us as American Catholics: Her life asks us to examine the road we've taken and challenges us to consider where we want to go in the future.
Movie review: Jennifer Hudson is brilliant as Aretha Franklin in the new film "Respect." In the flash of an eye, the film moves from Franklin's busy, sometimes frenetic outer life to her soulful inner life.
Book review: In Surviving the White Gaze, Rebecca Carroll recalls life growing up adopted into a white family. How do you navigate life when the images of Blackness you have are so few, or embittered, confused or nonexistent?
Moya Bailey's book focuses on how and why misogynoir serves as a critical framework for people writing, thinking and organizing more deeply around Black women's systemic plights. Her work examines how popular culture and media perpetuate the mistreatment of Black women.
Are police and prisons really necessary? For some abolition activists, the desire to abolish police and prisons comes from their Christian faith and a belief that no one is disposable.
Book review: In Fulfilled, food scientist Alexandra MacKillop tackles eating disorders and the narratives of shame, toxic diet culture and social pressure that impact the origins of such conditions. Her Christian faith also informs the book.
Commentary: Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors have actively and consistently condemned the violence and oppression affecting our country's most marginalized, the very evils our church calls on us to condemn.
Commentary: My social location as a pastoral theologian, social justice advocate and healer is influenced by the necessity of speaking out and being heard. "We are in pain. Do not our Black lives matter?"