A special election, indeed: Can a Black Catholic from Tennessee make history in Congress?
Christopher S. Gurley gives his take on Vincent Dixie, a Democrat seeking a seat gerrymandered to bolster Republican power in the Volunteer State.
Christopher S. Gurley
PhD student in religious studies at Stanford. Specializes in race/racialization in American religious history, with a focus on African-American history and Catholicism. Degrees from Tennessee State, Vanderbilt Divinity, and Yale Divinity School.
Surviving Catholic clerical sex abuse is not new, and it's not White.
Christopher Gurley on the stories of Black Catholic survivors—a demographic often forgotten in the push to address the Church's living scourge.