Shane Claiborne How Much Hate Does It Take to Make a Hate Crime? by Angela Denker https://www.redletterchristians.org/how-much-hate-does-it-take-to-make-a-hate-crime/
Lenny Duncan We must dismantle, destroy, and bury white supremacy. Dear Church: “O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones” (Ezekiel 7:4-5): We must dismantle, destroy, and bury white supremacy. In…
John Pavlovitz The Former President is Making Present Monsters by John Pavlovitz https://johnpavlovitz.com/2021/03/17/the-former-president-is-making-present-monsters/
Kerry Connelly Racist Because I know the R-word freaks everybody out, let’s go about defining it too, because I mean something very specific when I use it. Racism refers to a system…
Lenny Duncan My ordination is radical. I have a myriad of drug felonies; I spent years homeless; I received my GED in county prison. The church affirming me is a radical act. It is a way…
Brian McLaren Dismantling the White Nationalist Jesus by Caleb Lines and Brian McLaren https://www.redletterchristians.org/dismantling-the-white-nationalist-jesus/
Kerry Connelly Types of privilege White privilege means that even though your life may not be easy, the color of your skin does not provide additional obstacles to your success. Because privilege is often invisible…
Uncategorized Anti-racism: White United Methodists speak out By Crystal Caviness https://www.umc.org/en/content/anti-racism-white-united-methodists-speak-out
Religion News Service The impeachment vote was a vote for white supremacy by Andre Henry - The refusal to confront the white supremacy at the Capitol is a refusal to reconcile America’s lofty democratic rhetoric with the state of its floundering institutions.…
Uncategorized Yolanda Pierce on grandmother theology, Black Jesus and Mariology 'I'm really trying to shift the discourse about who can do theology and what counts as theological source material,' says the first woman dean of Howard University’s divinity school and…
Robin DiAngelo We cling tightly to the ideology of individualism when asked to consider our own unearned advantage Individualism is a story line that creates, communicates, reproduces, and reinforces the concept that each of us is a unique individual and that our group memberships, such as race, class,…
Ausin Channing Brown Dear Nice White People What are you afraid of? by Austin Channing Brown https://austinchanning.substack.com/p/dear-nice-white-people?r=43xc6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Private schools in the South opened by white parents to avoid desegregated public schools The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 was heralded by progressive Christians and many other Americans as a huge advance for social justice, but it…
Ausin Channing Brown Joy as Resistance by Austin Channing Brown https://austinchanning.substack.com/p/joy-as-resistance?r=43xc6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy
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…
Susan K. Smith Breathing Easier but Not Easily by Susan K. Smith https://candidobservation.com/2021/02/06/breathing-easier-but-not-easily/
brenda salter mcneil Offering a larger narrative to which people can connect and rebuild their story The current sociopolitical climate, where untruths are allowed to go unchecked, unchallenged, and unsubstantiated, creates an environment that not only threatens people’s physical safety but also does violence to their…
Religion News Service What next? Christian leaders offer advice for confronting Christian nationalism One good first step for Christians is to learn more about Christian nationalism — and why it conflicts with Christianity. https://religionnews.com/2021/01/28/what-next-christian-leaders-offer-advice-for-confronting-christian-nationalism/
Religion News Service From $500,000 to $785, Maryland Episcopal churches commit to reparations from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/27/from-500000-to-785-maryland-episcopal-churches-commit-to-reparations/
Uncategorized Biden’s Early Move to Deliver on His Promise of Racial Equity The president signed four executive orders meant to thwart discrimination against minorities – the start of a broad-based plan to address racial equity. https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-01-26/bidens-early-move-to-deliver-on-his-promise-of-racial-equity
