Is this question like the question of how did the fox get into the chicken coop?  If so, then we might focus on the failure of...

Remember the talk about “turning the page”?   Turns out, we did turn the page.  We turned the page back to where we had been instead of...

Both the sacred and the solemn elicit reverence, a reverence for something other than our selves.  Both invite us to be reverent, but...

In a liberal household and even in a liberal society, we tend to let each other keep their memories, even when we disagree.  Most of us...

Is the United States in or of America?  Maybe a strange question, but perhaps one that can shed some light on our climate of injustice...

It could be that our government continues to ship bombs to Israel because we, like Israel, are a settler nation.  In different ways...

The highly regarded writer and activist, Wendell Berry, thinks so. In his latest book, The Need to be Whole: Patriotism and the History...

As we approach the mid-terms, more than one commentator has framed the key question as “who controls the narrative.” One might think that...

Like everyone else, white people dream of safety. The desire for safety, in fact, may be as strong if not stronger than other primal...

Whose history is upon us? Right now, the history of white America seems to have gained control of the Supreme Court and much of public...

A 1966 photo of my class’s meeting with Reinhold Niebuhr at Union Theological Seminary when I was a student in Beverly Wildung Harrison’s...

What does watching the pain and resistance of Ukrainian civilians trigger for you? What do you remember? American memory, of course, is...

Sharecropping has a bad reputation not because it’s a bad idea, but because it was not protected from exploitation. In fact, it’s a good...

To understand the motives for the expansion of State control over women in Texas and elsewhere, it may help to see how the legacy of...

The challenge of Critical Race Theory is not so much about canceling culture but rather about deciding what we should emphasize in...

Juneteenth is now a national holiday: a day to celebrate the freeing of enslaved Africans. What has not been announced is what this means...

There are different kinds of tragedy, but the American one follows a rather typical pattern. Unknown or denied past events cause one’s...

If something is going in the wrong direction, the worst thing you can do is to “make it better.” Ok, “Build Back Better” Is better than...

The essential contribution of African Americans in the election of Joe Biden and in the election of Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff...

We elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. That’s majority rule! Yet, seventy-one millions of us voted for a racist predator who has...