Brandan Robertson

White imperial Christianity

Fast forward to the age of the United States of America. While the nation was not technically founded as a Christian country, nearly all of the founders came from the British Empire, where Christianity was privileged and any other version of religion was eschewed. Christianity has enjoyed privilege from the very beginning of the nation’s …

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The backing and support of imperial forces in just about every country that it has colonized

For those of us who find ourselves within the religious structures of Christianity and yet are awakening to just how disparate our religion has become from the message of Jesus, there is no other path.  Jesus himself spoke of a day when the central institution of his religion – the temple – would be destroyed: …

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God in Christ makes clear whose side God is on when it comes to questions of injustice

From a theological lens, Christians assert that God chose to incarnate as a first-century Jewish man, as a member of a community that constantly lived under the threat of colonizing forces moving in, yet again, to oppress and exploit them. This is a theological insight that must not be taken lightly. The creator of the …

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