A Nonviolent Uprising
This nonviolent uprising has been incredible to watch. A slow, steady, disciplined movement in Ferguson has caught the world’s attention.
Step by Step, Block by Block: Letting Ferguson Change Us
We were part of a movement that is building step by step, block by block. The folks we met did not want vengeance and did not want officer Darren Wilson killed. They want an end to killing.
What Resurrection Looks Like: Standing Together for Justice
This week, for the first time in 31 years, Henry McCollum woke up in his own bed, a free man.
Seeking An Epathethic Space: The Challenge of a Christian Witness in America
Rev. Michael McBride, known simply as “Pastor Mike, ” is the Director of Urban Strategies and Lifelines to Healing Campaign for the PICO National Network.
Ferguson: Reading From a Script
In the background is where the story is most dangerous. Inside of us, black and white, it lies unexamined and ready to pounce: like HIV, attacking our immune system and making us vulnerable to hatred and death.
Pilgrimage to Ferguson
Something felt right about going to Ferguson. And something felt right about going with Derrick.
Moral Week of Action, Day 3: Equal Protection Under the Law
George was not the first person to tell me that young black men in Durham feel hunted by the police. For nearly a decade, I heard this from a generation of teens and young adults in Durham, North Carolina’s Walltown neighborhood.
What If It Were Your Son?
What if you were the Brown family? What if your son, who was preparing to leave home and start his college career, was approached by police for either jaywalking or stealing cigars from a store?
Reading Revelation in An Unjust World
The sole reason for Revelation’s existence is to encourage people who are suffering injustice.
Life Among the Bus-Riders: A Window on My City
You have not moved to this side of town to rescue the inner city. Rather, you’re all getting yourselves saved a little at a time by doing life together across lines of difference.