Earlier this fall, I had an extended conversation with Blake Chastain, host of the podcast Exvangelical. Exvangelical is a weekly podcast that shares stories of people who grew up or converted into Evangelical Christianity and have since built lives of faith and beyond faith outside of the subculture. Episode 14, “A Safe Place for Questions,” runs a […]
The blessing of explicit bigotry
I was talking with my favorite American tonight about my family’s experiences in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. My parents’ generation, West Indians who moved from the Caribbean to the Mother Country, is known as the Windrush generation after the boat that brought them to the UK’s shores in 1948. My parents landed several years after […]
Confronting the First Colony and Our Acceptable Trades
I’m driving down North Carolina Highway 158 late at night, the peninsula woods flanking the road. It’s so dark here. The moon is about half full. Clusters of trees stand bare and stiff in the black. I can see the stars through the windshield. Orion’s south of me, lying on his side like the prophet […]
Moving forward
This was part of the last sunset of 2013. My Australian friends have been enjoying 2014 for almost a day now, but I still have a few hours to wait, work, and reflect. This Site I started mackenzian.com last January as a space for writing, exploring ideas, and connecting with others, and also as an […]
