“Raping the Jezebel: Hypocrisy, Stereotyping, and Sexual Identity in Harriet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Aisha Matthews notes the way that white men attempted to paint such sexual encounters as natural,
“Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.”
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“It is not the vaccinationists but the antivaccinationists who generate zeal. People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.”
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“Jumping ahead to the victories means skipping the hard but necessary work of examining what went wrong with race and the church.”
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
“The version of Christianity that is dying today is rooted in the grossly misunderstood concept of atonement”
― Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy: A Journey into a New Christianity Through the Doorway of Matthew's Gospel – Recovering Jewish Scripture Through Progressive Theology
― Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy: A Journey into a New Christianity Through the Doorway of Matthew's Gospel – Recovering Jewish Scripture Through Progressive Theology
“White culture is not marked by its uniquely creative and enriching social contributions. Rather, it is distinguished by its ability to promote the sanctity of whiteness by devaluing that which is non-White.”
― Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective
― Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective
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