Manchester, England and the Black History Struggle

Many people in the US might struggle to tell you much about Manchester except perhaps knowledge of Manchester United - the football team (called "socceer" in the US). Yet, Manchester has more to it than meets the eye. According to The Guardian, Manchester is a city which is currently in the mdist of a civic …

Toxic Masculinity – Womanist Allies

See the abstract below from Old Testament scholar, Robert Wafawanaka, PhD. He challenges that masculine readings of Bible women, such as Sarah, Hagar and Yael, can unwittingly engage in a toxic masculinity. By examining what he calls the “strong-man model,” Wafawanaka considers that, instead of interpreting women as being “better men,” they can provide alternative …

The Unlearning of My Education

Greetings! We are re-printing this essay from July 2022 while we continue our hiatus. We return on February 1, 2023. We look forward to seeing you then. In the meantime, enjoy!  In an exercise with friends, where we explored the things we didn’t learn in school, I considered the topic from my own social location. …

M2M Presents Words of Wisdom: A Decolonial Truth Moving Us Toward Justice

Within Religious Academia, decoloniality must disrupt taken for granted knowledge production in terms of how we define knowledge and preferred thinkers.

Sheltering Under the Wings

I gathered you as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. (II Esdras 1:30) “May the Lord reward you for your deeds, and may you have a full reward from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge!” (Ruth 2:12, NRSV) As the former national adviser to the …