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
Robin DiAngelo We don’t see ourselves in racial terms I am a white American raised in the United States. I have a white frame of reference and a white worldview, and I move through the world with a white…
Uncategorized Refusing to Be Erased by Susan K. Smith https://candidobservation.com/2021/01/20/refusing-to-be-erased/
Religion News Service What Andrew Young taught me about keeping King’s movement going By Maina Mwaura via Religion News Service “Martin would say that if you’re not willing to stand up and lead, go do something else,” Young said. Leadership in the fight…
Amanda Henderson The truth had been relatively easy for me to avoid Five years ago, I found myself working in a place I hadn’t fully expected to be in - at the intersection of faith and politics in one of the more…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons It’s the gospel It is the black social gospel that led directly to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. “First, many people talk about the civil rights movement…
brenda salter mcneil The burden we have carried As an African American woman, I’m acutely aware that many of us bear the weight of reconciliation in our bodies. This is not some social experiment for us. The call…
Robin DiAngelo Making sure that others see us as having arrived None of the white people whose actions I describe in this book would identify as racist. In fact, they would most likely identify as racially progressive and vehemently deny any…
Religion News Service A prayer for a more just, inclusive future for LGBTQ folks in 2021 from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/12/28/a-prayer-for-a-more-just-inclusive-future-for-lgbtq-folks-in-2021/
Mark Feldmeir Three suggestions So, what can we do? Where do we go from here? Can I offer three suggestions? First, if you’re white, listen to people, especially to people of color, who are…
Robin DiAngelo Racism as a system into which I was socialized Personal reflections on my own racism, a more critical view of media and other aspects of culture, and exposure to the perspective of many brilliant and patient mentors of color…
Otis Moss III Raphael Warnock is the man to bring the gospel back into public life by Otis Moss III https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/10/raphael-warnock-black-church-theology/
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons “The better we know Jesus, the more social do his thoughts and aims become” Today, we mostly think of social justice as a secular movement sometimes associated with progressive causes that are fighting the “Christian right” and other conservative groups. But many of the…
Uncategorized The Long Road to White Christians’ Trumpism By Elizabeth Jemison https://religionandpolitics.org/2020/12/08/the-long-road-to-white-christians-trumpism/
Mark Feldmeir Something more systemic? If we want to understand racism in the U.S., as uncomfortable as it might be for us, we have the moral responsibility to open our eyes and see our society…
Robin DiAngelo The smallest amount of racial stress is intolerable White people in North America live in a society that is deeply separate and unequal by race, and white people are the beneficiaries of that separation and inequality. As a…
Brandan Robertson God is still speaking The idea that God stopped speaking at the close of the canon is a modern notion dreamed up by the Protestant Reformers some 500 years ago. But the Catholic and…
