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When Memory Has a Voice

This week Common People is releasing Thula Sizwe / I Shall Be Released, a collaboration built around a 1990 medley recorded by Miriam Makeba and Nina Simone shortly after Nelson Mandela was released from prison and Makeba returned to South Africa after thirty-one years in forced exile. That sen...


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Dream vs Incarnation Culture

I’ve been wondering if the American Dream and the doctrine of incarnation are moving in opposite directions. Incarnation is the Christian claim that God became flesh — not as an idea floating above the world, but as a body inside it.

The American Dream teaches us to live toward a future. A be...


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When Culture Stops Carrying Memory, Movements Keep Starting Over

Movements do not become durable through urgency alone. They need culture to carry urgency into memory, meaning, and practice. That is the line I keep coming back to.

Urgency is everywhere right now. Every week brings another ruling, another law, another bac...


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Why Social Justice?

Why Social Justice?

Social justice has become a visible part of Christian conversation. More and more believers are attaching their faith to public causes, community concerns, and the wounds of the world. Sometimes that concern can become fashionable, especially in corners of Christianity that have le...


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When Culture Stops Carrying Memory, Movements Have To Start Over

Movements do not become durable through urgency alone. They need culture to carry urgency into memory, meaning, and practice.

That is the line I keep coming back to.

Urgency is everywhere right now. Every week brings another ruling, another law, anoth...


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