You may ask for freedom only if you live above reproach. That was the message to enslaved black people in…
For today’s Faith & Feminism Friday, I refer you to a conversation recorded over the summer when I was honored…
I came across the above quote last semester in my academic research but returned to it in June, when the…
Around this time last year, I was parked in the lobby of a hotel in Tobago (the smaller island of…
I remember attending a Sunday school class several years ago in which the gentleness of God was the topic. I…
This inconsistency between black identity and Christianity’s role in the oppression of black people is something I think all black…
I hate when I think of a snappy comeback three weeks after a discussion ends. That’s happening right now, as…
I write about my life of “existing in many spaces at once, holding multiple identities and not quite serving…
Last week I had the privilege of attending Freedom Dreams Freedom Now, a conference sponsored by the Social Justice Initiative at…
I saw a lot of men up in arms on social media yesterday over a New Jersey Superior Court judge’s…
I’m a little late on looking back, but I wrote 67 posts in 2013. Here’s my top 10 list of…
I said I wouldn’t write about this because I knew I wouldn’t download the album until after Christmas and my…
A note about today’s post: I have a bi-weekly column on National Catholic Reporter, and I plan to use these…
I think Olivia Pope was wrong about herself on last night’s “Scandal.†I don’t think she wants painful love (which…
(For the first Faith & Feminism Friday of 2013, I’m a guest contributor on the “Feminism and Religion” blog. The…
I have a problem with obedience—not necessarily the action, but the idea of it. Obedience implies acts done with or…
Sometimes I read posts written as responses to something unusual and esoteric written online and wonder how the respondent found…
“to be ‘feminist’ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation…
I’ve already addressed “God’s gift of rape,†but since Indiana republican senate candidate Richard Mourdock has put the phrase back…
In part 1, I talked about Hanna Rosin’s book The End of Men and the Rise of Women and suggested that…
Last Saturday, for the first time ever, I went to a wedding and took notes. I think most single women…
In her book, The End of Men, author and The Atlantic editor Hanna Rosin explores how the “mancession†and changing…
The following is part of a real text conversation that took place February 2, 2012. ME: Did u know the…
The following is a real* text conversation that took place on February 24, 2012, between me and @Bill1phd, who describes…
The full name of this blog is Redbone Afropuff & Black GRITS. I generally ignore the part after “and†because…