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See Beck dodge…

by Nekeisha A.B. 25 September 2009

Glen Beck refuses to answer what the “white culture” is that Obama apparently hates.

In reaction to Obama’s comments that the white police officer who had arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. had acted “stupidly,” Glenn Beck stated that Obama has a “deep-seated hatred for white culture“–an accusation that (unsurprisingly) went unchallenged and unexamined by [...]

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Race, Racism and the Nation-State

by Nekeisha A.B. 22 September 2009

Recently, I reflected on the connection between race, racism and the nation state and the ways in which it has deepened my understanding of anarchism and anti-racism for an essay in Religious Anarchisms: New Perspectives. There I argue that critiquing and challenging state power demands that we confront and dismantle racism and the false racial [...]

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Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives

by Nekeisha A.B. 30 August 2009

This fall will mark the release of a book project that brings together twelve people who hold both anarchism and religious faith as significant parts of their identities. Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives features anarchists from Christian, Buddhist, Muslim and Daoist traditions whose essays “provide an outline history of some of the leading currents of [...]

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Power and Practices: Engaging the Work of John Howard Yoder

by Andy Alexis-Baker 19 August 2009

A new book has just been released that engages the work of John Howard Yoder: Power and Practices: Engaging the Work of John Howard Yoder, edited by Jeremy Bergen and Anthony Siegrist. Scottdale, PA.: Herald Press, 2009.
Herald Press describes the book this way:
A new generation engages the theology of John Howard Yoder. These essays wrestle [...]

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Police Power: President apologizes

by Andy Alexis-Baker 24 July 2009

If anyone has doubted the power of the police in American society, today their power was front and center. President Obama was asked a question about the unjust arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. during a prime-time news conference earlier this week and commented that he thought the police had acted stupidly in arresting a [...]

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Police and Racism

by Andy Alexis-Baker 21 July 2009

The latest high profile case demonstrating institutional racism among police just broke today with the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard Professor of African and African American Research, was arrested by Boston officers. The police received a call that somebody was breaking into a home in an upscale Cambridge, Mass. neighborhood. Since it is [...]

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The Common Root 2009: Jin Kim

by Mark Van Steenwyk 19 February 2009

How do we boldly and explicitly confess our racist past so that our memories can be healed? How do we penitently confess that we are still complicit in the structures of injustice that fund our commonwealth? What does it mean for us to walk humbly with our God and with one another in [...]

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The Style of Subversion Part 2: Resisting Pseudo Alterity

by Mark Van Steenwyk 12 August 2008

In part one of the Style of Subversion, I examined the rise of the “hipster” and the growing trend of easy radicalism. Rather than simply vilifying the current trend, my hope is that we can see the see it for what it is. We must resist the Powers (of consumerism, globalism, fashion, etc) even as [...]

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Jesus and the Kids

by icaruslotff 14 May 2008

We’ve tossed out several Bible story books in our home. In a Western world painted with pictures of Middle Eastern “terrorists,” the last thing we want is for our children to forget that Jesus looked a lot more like bin Laden than their white dad. We realized this one evening when reading out loud one [...]

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A Mountain of Bones

by Mark Van Steenwyk 24 March 2008

I live at the pinnacle of a great mountain of the bones of the oppressed. Native Americans and African Americans and Latino Americans and others died to give their bones to my mountain. As a white man in the Americas, I was born profoundly privileged…even though I grew up in the lower class or at [...]

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