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“Jonah Redivivus? Retributive Justice in the Book of Jonah and the Jonah Hex Comic Book Series” by Dan Clanton

Photo by Pedro Figueras on Pexels I have taught the book of Jonah for years, and I used to be very pleased with my reading of it. I taught my students that the author was using the characters of God and Jonah to prescribe a new concept of relating to others. In the story, Jonah…

“‘Sunday Service,’ the Black Church, and Prophetic Religion in the Public Sphere” by Ari Colston

Mar 30, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Colston, Ari, March 2020, Media and Culture

Kanye West performing at Lollapalooza in 2011 / Rodrigo Ferrari / Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0 This article is part of our “Race, Religion, and Law” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. In a chain of interrelated events, hip-hop artist Kanye West (referred to here as ‘Kanye’ to avoid confusion with…