Uncategorized Racism as Institutional Injustice In March 2012 an African American defense attorney named Bryan Stevenson gave a TED Talk called “We Need to Talk about an Injustice.” While not yet the household name he…
Jacqui Lewis We are not liberated until… by Jacqui Lewis We are not liberated until our LGBTQI+ siblings are free to be who they are, marry who they love and keep their jobs! https://www.facebook.com/Rev.Jacqui.Lewis/photos/a.719247864759366/3662074577143332/?type=3&theater
Mark Feldmeir Mark Feldmeir is the author of four books, including his latest work, A House Divided: Engaging the Issues through a Politics of Compassion. He has served on the Adjunct Faculty at Claremont…
Erin Robinson Hall Let’s be disrupted by Erin Robinson Hall I had a whole plan to get through Christmas Eve unscathed. In a pastor’s family, Christmas Eve is often a last hurdle on the 100 yard…
Religion News Service The preaching politician: ‘Good Trouble’ documentary follows John Lewis from fields of Alabama to halls of Congress from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/07/02/john-lewis-good-trouble-documentary-tells-tale-of-preaching-politician/
Sabrina Cherry Dr. Sabrina T. Cherry is a teacher, writer and speaker. Her professional experience includes two decades of working and volunteering in the field of Public Health, including serving as United…
Brian McLaren Once they practiced denial, deception, and cover-up Of course, now that I’m a bit older and have had my own skirmishes with self-sabotage, I’ve come to wonder if my colleagues and I had it all wrong. It…
Uncategorized White noise protects us from the class-based racial nightmare in the United States We mistakenly identify racism as only brazen discrimination and physical violence. To protect ourselves, it is convenient to treat White supremacy as an anomaly unrelated to the specific social perils…
Uncategorized The four stages of wound healing The four overlapping but distinct stages of wound healing are the central images of this book, which we will turn to again and again. The first stage is hemostasis, or…
Brian McLaren Bought by powerful corporate leaders Most Christians today remain unaware of how Christian leaders since the 1930s have been intentionally co-opted (or, more bluntly, bought) by powerful corporate leaders in America (and elsewhere) to provide…
Andre Henry I didn’t want to believe that racism was alive and well in this country I was once that kid with an odd love of country. I remember lying on my bedroom floor, legs kicking behind me, as I filled white, glossy poster boards with…
Andre Henry I know I’m not the only Black person to have ever sidestepped the revolution I blush to admit that pre-apocalyptic Andre didn’t see racism as being endemic to American society. I once believed racism was primarily an emotional attitude rooted in ignorance, an irrational…
Uncategorized Children were raised, not parented In generations past, children were raised, not parented. Raising children mainly amounted to keeping them healthy, clothed, and fed as best you could while gradually integrating them into the economic…
Uncategorized A letter from Jourdon Dayton, Ohio August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad that you had not forgotten Jourdon,…
Ibram X. Kendi We must first take account of race As President Lyndon B. Johnson said in 1965, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the…
About What, you might ask, is Compassionate Christianity? Christian: We do not promote a creed or tell you what to believe. Whether or not you identify as a Christian is up…
Catherine Meeks The transformation of hearts is essential Opposing racism but not being active in combatting it sounds rather benign. Forfeiting opportunities to act creatively for race relations may be the greatest contributor to racism’s malignant persistence in…
Parker Palmer The loss of efficiency is more than offset Our diversity consists only in part in demographic differences such as race, ethnicity, and social class. Equally important are the wildly different lenses through which we see, think, and believe.…
Lenny Duncan A cage is a cage, after all Capitalism is a satanic structure that’s built on the idea of building a meritocracy in the midst of democracy. In this system, we are told if we work hard and…
Lenny Duncan The roots of black Lutheranism in America Jehu would eventually be sent to Philadelphia to be a missionary to the black community there. He founded St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Center City Philadelphia. He bought the land…
Robin DiAngelo These ideologies make it very difficult We make sense of perceptions and experiences through our particular cultural lens. This lens is neither universal nor objective, and without it, a person could not function in any human…