Theologians

Focusing solely in MLK's Dream is to whiten him, to make him palpable to white audiences by focusing solely on something that can be easily and readily shared: a dream.

In the beginning… God reveals to us, in the voice of Frances McDormand, that we are wrong. Specifically, we are wrong about beginnings and we are wrong about time. And if there are fundamental things that we as a species are obsessed about they are when and how things start and how and why things

[This post was originally written immediately after 2017's Alt-Right march on Charlottesville and failed to get picked up for publication. It is posted here in observation of his birthday, February 4, 1906. The work is heavily reliant upon Charles Marsh's Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. ] It is at Charlottesville and for the

In the early hours of this morning at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was led to the gallows among Nazi guards and hanged until he was dead. It was not Palm Sunday seventy-two years ago. In fact, Easter fell on April Fool's Day in 1945. Today, Jesus is led into the streets among joyful

Sixty-one years ago today, in Flossenbürg, Germany, Nazi guards hanged Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Two weeks later, the Soviets would liberate the prison. This is the last poem he wrote, found in his cell. "By the Powers of Good" With every power for good to stay and guide me, Comforted and inspired beyond all fear, I’ll live these