Religion Otherwise
J. Kameron Carterfugitive musings on faith, politics, and the art of living . . .
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From the Cross to the Crossroads
Yesterday I had the honor of presenting the 2026 James H. Cone Lecture at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. I titled it “Conjuring Cone: Black Theology at the Crossroads.”
The argument, plainly put, was that what we’re living th...
Trump's Speech and the Collapse of American Empire
President Donald J. Trump just delivered a speech to the nation. The task of the speech was to explain where things stand in the war with Iran, when oil will begin moving freely through the Strait of Hormuz again, and, finally, when the Ame...
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Myth that Binds Us
Summary: In my previous essay, I traced how the politics of martyrdom gathering around Charlie Kirk — now consecrated by a national day of remembrance this October — signals something deeper in our political life. Ta-Nehisi Coates has since...
Murdered, Not Martyred
Summary: This essay builds on themes from chapter 3 of my forthcoming book, The Afterlife of Christian Empire (Yale University Press). It also continues the conversation begun in my earlier Substack piece, Authoritarian America and the Afte...
Authoritarian America and the Afterlife of Christian Empire
Summary: This essay responds to Ezra Klein’s September 7th column in The New York Times, where he argues that the United States is not drifting toward authoritarianism but is already consolidating it under Donald Trump. I take Klein’s insig...
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Professor African American Studies, Religion, and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. I write about religion, culture, & public life.
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