Spring/Summer 2019 (Vol. 47, Nos. 1&2)
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
Police Brutality and the #EndSARS Movement in Nigeria
A Nigerian protest movement offers hope for the future of transnational activism. By Oluwole Ojewale
Sacred, Ancestral Cries for Freedom
Black and Buddhist: The Eightfold Path finds resonance in the Black church. By Melissa Wood Bartholomew
Policing: War Institution or Public Service?
A Kenyan policy analyst traces the causes and consequences of the global militarization of police. By Douglas Lucas Kivoi
Let My People Go
Mass incarceration is Jim Crow’s most obvious descendent. Faith communities must focus on the collective work of dismantling this catastrophic system. By Raphael G. Warnock
Guadalupe Love
The Virgin of Guadalupe spreads her garment of compassion for all people in travail. By Davíd Carrasco.
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
A selected reading list from Amy Hollywood’s course.