Blog Failed Evangelical: Reflections on Suicide By E. Hughes I was naked and balled up in fetal position on a bathroom floor when I heard the…Erica HughesMarch 10, 2018
Blog At Paul Lisicky’s Reading, I think of God Stepping on the Earth By E. Hughes July 14, 2017 I image God stepping from the clouds into the narrow and green man-made pond.…Erica HughesSeptember 16, 2017
Blog You are Going to Hell By E. Hughes You are going to hell. At least that’s what the white church planter tells you over Facebook…Erica HughesJune 24, 2017
Blog To Doubt by E. Hughes The Israelites must have felt like I had last August, driving back into the Central Valley. After…Erica HughesJune 10, 2017
Blog Poetry of the Body by Erica Hughes No ideas but in things. —William Carlos Williams Salvation is not an idea—but a person, God’s body.…Erica HughesMarch 18, 2017
Blog The Cross Black People Bear By Erica Hughes …you begin to understand yourself as rendered hypervisible in the face of such language. Language that feels…Erica HughesFebruary 18, 2017
Blog The Prophetic Words of Rappers by Erica Hughes This is hell and I don’t mean that hyperbolic —J. Cole in “4 Your Eyez Only” If…Erica HughesJanuary 26, 2017
Blog A Black Woman’s Need for a Decolonized Jesus by Erica Hughes ‘Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there’s a…Erica HughesDecember 10, 2016
Blog The Cost of Freedom and the Savior’s Grace by Erica Hughes About five years ago, I stood underneath the sheet of nighttime, an arm crossed over my chest,…Erica HughesNovember 5, 2016