Medium Post 11While this week’s material was mostly new for me, we have discussed the topic of prison reform and restorative justice before in this…Dec 1, 20201Dec 1, 20201
Medium Post 10While I have not read or listened to any of this week’s pieces before, I am somewhat familiar with the topic of mass incarceration of the…Nov 17, 2020Nov 17, 2020
Medium Post 9I am not very familiar with the topic of eschatology outside of the little knowledge that I have in my own religion. I am curious to see…Nov 10, 20202Nov 10, 20202
Medium Post 8I have had little experience at viewing BLM as a religious movement outside of this class, but after engaging with prior week’s works, I…Oct 27, 20201Oct 27, 20201
Medium Post 7Before watching the documentary Stay Woke, I had known a decent amount about the Black Lives Matter movement. Through social media, I have…Oct 20, 20201Oct 20, 20201
Medium Post 6This week’s works were all new to me, but having read Cone’s A Black Theology of Liberation, I knew some context for Floyd-Thomas’ piece…Oct 13, 20201Oct 13, 20201
Medium Post 5Before reading and watching this week’s materials, I had already known about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and…Oct 6, 2020Oct 6, 2020
Medium Post 4While I had not heard of either of these pieces before engaging with them, I am familiar with the idea of the wake. The wake is usually…Sep 22, 20203Sep 22, 20203
Medium Post 3I had some general knowledge on the topics of mass incarceration of African Americans, but very little concerning the unjust treatment of…Sep 15, 2020Sep 15, 2020
Medium Post 2Before reading this week’s assignments, I had some knowledge of the post-slavery hardships that African Americans faced, namely the Jim…Sep 8, 20201Sep 8, 20201