Josiah R. Daniels (Black/white) is the assistant opinion editor at Sojo.net. Although he is neither a musician nor a detective, he would classify his writing style as both “hard-bopped” and “hard boiled.” In this episode, Josiah writes a letter to his nephew.

This piece comes from Geez 62: Dismantling White Theology. White supremacist theology is baked into the structures and systems of this world, and therefore into each of our lives. Our work must entwine social analysis, story, bodies, reparations, spirit, and grace.

Geez magazine is a quarterly, non-profit, ad-free, print magazine about social justice, art, and activism for people at the fringes of faith in both Canada and the US. Geez is for the over-churched, out-churched, un-churched and maybe even the un-churchable.