Who Am I?
What genetic ancestry tests can’t tell you about identity.
The Saints That Haunt Us
When families live through, escape from, or are adjacent to the unimaginable, what do their children do with this inheritance?
Grad School Blues
My dream for an intellectual life would have to survive—if it could—beyond some academic fairytale.
Moses Speaks Spanglish —
At every turn, shame pricks the tip of my tongue. Shame for having an accent. Shame for not having the right type of accent. Anger when someone is surprised I can speak English “well.”
Saint Augustine’s Slave Play
Augustine’s relationship to slavery—and sex—tells us much about how the ideal of freedom emerged alongside human bondage.
On Evangelical Masculinities
White evangelicals created their John Wayne cult of hyper-masculinity, but they don’t have a monopoly on evangelical hyper-masculinities as such. Latino, African-American, or Asian pastors don’t need white evangelicals in order to have sexism in their churches.
