A NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF THE IDEAS SHAPING MY WORK

Reading

Amanda Montell’s Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Angela Y. Davis’ Freedom is a Constant Struggle

Anthea Butler’s White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

Aviya Kushner’s The Grammar of God

Bart D. Ehrman’s Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them

Bart D. Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

Beth Allison Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

Bridget Quinn’s Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)

Caitlin Rosenthal’s Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management

Catherine E. McKinley’s Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World

Clint Smith’s How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Chester Brown’s Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus

Chris Hedges’ American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America

D.L. Mayfield’s The good White Christian women of Nazi Germany

Geoffrey R. Stone’s Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century

Gladys-Marie Fry’s Stitched from the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Antebellum South

Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

J. Russell Hawkins’ The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy

Jemar Tisby’s The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

Justo L. Gonzalez’s The Story of Christianity: Volume 1, The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation

Kate Bowler’s The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities

Kevin M. Kruse’s One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

Kristen Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne: How Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Margaret R. Miles’ Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West

Margaret R. Miles’ A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350-1750

Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead

Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America

Natalie Wynn’s tweet about Megan Phelps-Roper, bigotry, and empathy

Naomi Klein’s No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs

Nikole Hannah-Jones’ The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of the Sower

Sabrina Strings’ Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers’ They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton: A Global History

Victoria Finlay’s Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

looking

Sister Mary Corita, for the oaks

Liza Lou, Kitchen

Minnie Sue Coleman, "Pig In A Pen" Medallion

listening + Watching

WATCH The Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend

LISTEN NT Pod: Podcast about the New Testament and Christian Origins by Mark Goodacre, Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University