Spring/Summer 2019 (Vol. 47, Nos. 1&2)
Prison Theology
Austin Reed’s antebellum memoir The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict subverts notions of incarceration as spiritually regenerative. By Klaus C. Yoder
Racial Liberalism and the Ethics of Law and Justice
A selected reading list from Terrence L. Johnson’s course “Racial Liberalism and the Ethics of Law and Justice.”
Abolitionist Theology Can Help Us Reimagine Schooling
Schooling must be abolished so that education can begin, and abolitionist theology is a starting point. By Ashley Y. Lipscomb
Centering Black Evangelicals and Their Stories
A Q&A with Todne Thomas on her latest book, Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality. By Adam McNeil
The Dharma of Racial Justice
Mindfulness can help us lean into our subjective, embodied experiences of race, racism, and white supremacy so we might begin to disrupt these harmful legacies. By Rhonda V. Magee.
The Deliciousness of Truth
Black and Buddhist: In the face of white supremacy, Buddhism reteaches us how to relate to truth and to one another. By Pamela Ayo Yetunde
A Full-Bodied Dharma
Black and Buddhist: Contributors to this volume take refuge in embodied practice and in vibrant community. By Judith Simmer-Brown
Creating a World Beyond Lethal Force
Reducing our reliance on the military and police to keep us safe starts with having revolutionary conversations. By Sarah Nahar
Freedom Doesn’t Happen in a Day
Four voices celebrate the publication of Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom. Buddhism offers practical tools to work through intergenerational trauma. By Cheryl A. Giles
Investing in a World That Is Not Yet
Abolishing the police requires tapping into the Black radical imagination. By Marc Lamont Hill
