Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples' Day? The Damaging Christian "Doctrine of Discovery" at the Heart of the American Identity Crisis

This little known Christian doctrine is at the heart of centuries of exploitation of non-European people.

ICYMI, last week I published a deeply personal column at TIME, reflecting on the ways that the “personal relationship with Jesus” motif of my Southern Baptist upbringing discipled me to be blind to racial injustice all around me. If you missed the column at TIME or the appearance on MSNBC—or both—links are in my post from last Friday below.