Faithfully Magazine is a fresh, bold, and exciting news and culture publication centering on Christian communities of color. Their mission is to amplify conversations, issues, and events affecting diverse communities via faithfullymagazine.com and a weekly newsletter.
The readership is at least 60% women and predominantly White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian Christians. Most readers have attended grad school, are in their mid-20s to mid-40s, are politically active, and regularly attend church.
Current media partnership fellows
Christian Crawford
Christian G. Crawford is a writer, scholar, and theologian from Birmingham, Alabama. He earned a Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt University Divinity School, receiving graduate certificates in American Studies and Black Church Studies. His research navigates the nuances of religious ethics and society and African American politics, religion, and resistance in the American South.
Dr. Jamal-Dominique Hopkins
Jamal-Dominique Hopkins (Ph.D., University of Manchester, U.K.) is Dean of the Dickerson-Green Theological Seminary at Allen University and a Pedagogy Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Faith and Culture, where he is part of the Christ and Being Human project.
Phoebe Farag Mikhail
Phoebe Farag Mikhail is a Coptic Orthodox Christian and the author of Putting Joy into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church (Paraclete Press). She holds an M.A. in International Education and is a lifelong learner of theology, currently taking courses at Pope Shenouda III Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary in New Jersey. Her writing has appeared in Sojourners, Plough, Christianity Today, and other publications.
2020 Partnership
SYSTEMIC RELIGIOUS OPPRESSION BENEFITS WHITE CHRISTIANS
And Christians of Color, Too
7 January 2021
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Khyati Joshi
A PASSING PIONEER?
Would the Rev. Patrick Healy, Who Passed for White, Want to Be Celebrated as a Black Hero?
13 October 2020
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Alexandria Griffin
PROSPERITY MEETS
THE POOR
The Mission of Charleszetta ‘Mother’ Waddles in Urban America
8 October 2020
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Vaughn A. Booker
2020 media partnership Fellows
Dr. Vaughn A. Booker
Vaughn A. Booker, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and the Program in African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on African American religious history in the twentieth century. His first book, Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century (NYU Press, July 2020), explores the emergence of new race representatives in the jazz profession, including Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams.
Dr. Alexandria Griffin
Alexandria Griffin holds a PhD in Religious Studies from Arizona State University and is a 2020-2021 Visiting Assistant Professor of African American Religions at New College of Florida. Her dissertation work focuses on Patrick Francis Healy, S.J. and racial and religious identity in his life and legacy. She is also at work on a project on baseball, race, and religion in the Israelite House of David, focusing on their baseball team's 1934 season.
Dr. Khyati Y. Joshi
Dr. Khyati Y. Joshi is a public intellectual whose social science research and community connections inform policy-makers, educators, and everyday people about race, religion, and immigration in 21st century America. Her most recent book is White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America (NYU Press, 2020). She is the author and co-editor of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, 3rd edition (Routledge, 2016), one of the most widely-used books by diversity practitioners and social justice scholars alike. For more information see www.khyatijoshi.com
2019 partnership
White Evangelical Support of Trump
The History of the Christian Right
7 October 2019
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Todne Thomas
Less than United
The People of the United Methodist Church
9 August 2019
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Richard Newton
confronting
white supremacy
Why I’m Writing a Book about Black Catholics & Systemic Racism
22 July 2019
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
2019 media partnership fellows
Dr. Richard Newton
Richard Newton is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. His areas of interest include theory and method in the study of religion, African American history, the New Testament in Western imagination, American cultural politics, and pedagogy in religious studies. His research explores the drama and politics that ensue from the “scriptures” people create. In addition to an array of book chapters and online essays, Dr. Newton has published in the Journal of Biblical Literature and Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. His current book project, Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the Anthropology of Scriptures (under contract with Equinox), casts Alex Haley’s Roots as a case study in the dynamics of scriptures and identity politics with critical implications for the study of race, religion, and media. He’s on social media @seedpods, and you can learn more about his work at Sowing the Seed: Fruitful Conversations in Religion, Culture, and Teaching.
Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt
Tia Noelle Pratt, Ph.D., is a sociologist of religion specializing in the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. Dr. Pratt is President and Director of Research at TNPratt & Associates, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in inclusion and diversity issues. Her research focuses primarily on systemic racism in the Catholic Church and its impact on African-American Catholic identity. She is working on a book project with funding from the Louisville Institute and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Titled Black and Catholic, Catholic and Black: Structure, Racism, and Identity in the African-American Catholic Experience, her book incorporates ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews to analyze how systemic racism in the Catholic Church has resulted in the small number of African-American Catholics and how such racism continues to impact African-American Catholics’ experience through church closings and parish reorganizations.
Dr. Todne Thomas
Todne Thomas is an Assistant Professor of African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School. In collaboration with Afro-Caribbean and African American congregants, Thomas conducts ethnographic research on the racial, spatial, and familial dynamics of black Christian communities in the U.S. Conceptually, her work integrates religious studies and critical race and kinship theories to understand the racial and moral scripts of evangelicalism and black church arson.
She has a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology and has authored peer-reviewed articles for the Journal of Africana Religions, Anthropology and Humanism, and the Journal of African American Studies. She has also co-edited New Directions in Spiritual Kinship: Sacred Ties across the Abrahamic Religions (2017) with Asiya Malik and Rose Wellman. In addition to university funding, work has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.