Parsonage and Prophecy

BOOK REVIEW

Check Your Privilege Obsession
Instead of fighting injustice, we end up fighting each other.
Tish Harrison Warren
That term privilege, once the property of academics and social researchers, has become ubiquitous and culture-shaping. In The Perils of Privilege: Why Injustice Can't Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage, Phoebe Maltz Bovy discusses how "privilege" is the primary framework for how we talk about social justice today — from conversation-stopper phrases hurled like grenades online ("check your privilege," "your privilege is showing") to the new genre of "privilege aware" confessions. continue reading >>

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