After years of building intellectual life on platforms I do not own, I am bringing my public scholarship back to Unfit Christian. This is not nostalgia for blogging. It is a return to owned land, archive, sovereignty, and the publication world my work has always deserved.
Black spiritual inheritance is being labeled demonic in a moment shaped by Christian nationalism. But the real threat was never our ancestors, rituals, or Blackness. The threat is a faith that requires us to bury our memory to prove our devotion.
We get it. You think everything you can’t explain is demonic. But could you believe that in silence?
The story of Ruth & Boaz has been sold to Christian women as a model for courtship for years. But is it really what we make it out to be?
The open racism displayed in Charlottesville, VA is not a one-off anomaly. Blacks have long since called a spade a spade: America is *still* racist.
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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.
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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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Read MoreAfter years of building intellectual life on platforms I do not own, I am bringing my public scholarship back to Unfit Christian. This is not nostalgia for blogging. It is a return to owned land, archive, sovereignty, and the publication world my work has always deserved.
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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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