what is Unfit Christian™

Launched in 2014, Unfit Christian™ is a Black independent publication on faith, power, culture, public theology, and interior life.

What began as a digital faith community dismantling the Christian Evangelical legacy of anti-Blackness, misogyny, colonialism, and spiritual harm has grown into a wider archive of Black religious thought, cultural witness, public scholarship, and liberation-centered critique.

Here, faith is one grammar among many. Through theology, history, politics, culture, embodiment, and lived experience, Unfit Christian examines the systems that shape our public lives and inner worlds.

My book, The Day God Saw Me as Black, released October 29, 2024, with a foreword by Academy Award nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, is the culmination of a decade of this public work—and a lifetime of spiritual reckoning.

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Essays & Commentary

Latest essays, op-eds, public theology, cultural criticism, and Black public affairs from Unfit Christian.
CULTURAL THEOLOGY ➤ September 20, 2026

Everybody’s Slavin’ & Prayin’

In this selection from the American Memory Collection, Passuh Dany examines what gets lost when the racialized hereditary chattel slavery of the Atlantic world is flattened into a generic human history of captivity. Moving through plantation nostalgia, labor and capital, the pseudoscience of Drapetomania, racial memory, Christian formation, and the ongoing struggle over how America remembers itself, she asks what happens when the descendants of the enslaved are expected to “get over” a history the nation has never fully told the truth about.

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The Publisher

The Publisher

D. Danyelle Thomas, Founder

I’m D. Danyelle Thomas, author of The Day God Saw Me as Black & for more than a decade, I’ve written Black religious thought on faith, power, culture, and interior life — from religious deconstruction and spiritual care to public theology, cultural criticism, and Black public affairs.

Unfit Christian is the publishing home for my essays, op-eds, cultural witness, and public scholarship.

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