Gunnar B. Gundersen
Total 11 Posts
Opinion: What to the slave is George Washington's Mount Vernon?
Gunnar Gundersen visits one of the most famous historical sites in American history. It's also a slave plantation.
Opinion: Until the whole life matters to conservative Catholics, critiques of Biden's failures ring hollow
Gunnar Gundersen explains why Biden's new comments on abortion put him not in opposition to far-right voices, but on a similar plane of anti-Blackness.
Reflection: Far from "worth it", residential schools were a sin against Christ
Gunnar Gundersen speaks on the still-unfolding residential school scandal(s), and the ill-informed defenses emanating from the Far Right.
Reflection: 'In The Heights' and Afro-Latino erasure
Lin Manuel-Miranda's latest is stirring up controversy on the silver screen, occasioning an explanatory reflection from BCM's resident Afro-Latino, Gunnar Gundersen.
Opinion: Don't sleep, Bishop Barron
Bishop Robert Barron can't seem to hold his peace on "woke" ideology and the modern racial justice movement. Gunnar Gundersen offers a critique.
Review: Raoul Peck's "Exterminate All the Brutes" impresses, despite blindspots
A new docu-drama on HBOMax incisively analyzes the history of global colonialism and genocide from a Black lens—though Catholicism gets a bit of a side-eye.
Reflection: The Gospel according to DMX
Few artists are as associated with the streets and the Church as explicitly as DMX. In the wake of his tragic death, his faith witness is highlighted by Gunnar Gundersen.