The Supreme Court’s draft statement on abortion clarifies an issue I thought a lot about when writing A Climate of Justice : “Can...

A 1966 photo of my class’s meeting with Reinhold Niebuhr at Union Theological Seminary when I was a student in Beverly Wildung Harrison’s...

When people commit crimes against humanity, do they lose their own humanity? The notion of “Our Humanity” played a central role in A...

As I wrote and rewrote A Climate of Justice, my view of civilians kept changing. I thought I had a clear notion when the book was...

Jeremiah has been my favorite prophet since my graduate studies at Union Theological Seminary. I think I was influenced more by Abraham...

What does watching the pain and resistance of Ukrainian civilians trigger for you? What do you remember? American memory, of course, is...

Much of A Climate of Justice is about civilians. I learned about the significance of civilians in thinking about creating a climate of...

For Shareable’s on-line magazine, Nancy Southern, faculty at Saybrook University, interviewed Marvin Brown about his new book: Creating a...

To understand the point of A Climate of Justice, it’s necessary to acknowledge that we always live in some historical context. The...

It’s true that my book, A Climate of Justice, was written by a white man. Is that significant? Some white men, of course, might not see...

Published as an Open Access book, you can download a PDF or a EPUB copy of the book, or single Chapters at the book’s Springer page. You...

As a white male person, I continue to deal with the issue of white distortion. Distortion is not that uncommon. Sometimes it’s comical,...

One would hope that philanthropy could promote justice. After all, that’s where the money is. According to Rob Reich, the Director of...

Sharecropping has a bad reputation not because it’s a bad idea, but because it was not protected from exploitation. In fact, it’s a good...

It seems much more complicated to get out of the mess we are in than it was to get in it. You can change the game of basketball a bit,...

One might think that it’s the oil, gas and coal companies that are to blame for creating our climate crisis, but as Gus Speth’s book,...

Just as critical race theory tries to explain the role of race in American history, critical white theory would look at the role of white....

To understand the motives for the expansion of State control over women in Texas and elsewhere, it may help to see how the legacy of...

President Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan by September 1 came, as he said, from his very core. For him, it was the right...

Is justice necessary for prosperity or can we aim for prosperity now and leave justice for later? Can the good crowd out the right? If...