Anti-Racism – Red Letter Christians

A Call to the Transformational, Lifelong Work of Antiracism

May 5, 2022

I had been on a quest for years to prove to the world how not racist I was. Sitting in that room, facing the ugliest of truths about myself and my story, I finally stopped hiding. I no longer needed to hide or to prove to the world that I was a good white person. I wasn’t. I was a recovering racist.

Grove City College rejects ‘wokeness,’ CRT in new report

Kathryn Post

April 28, 2022

Church Life, Politics, Race

"...the report uses CRT as 'a junk drawer for anything about race or justice that makes a certain type of person feel uncomfortable.” Because of the rhetoric around CRT, he said, 'much needed conversations about racial justice are being muted in the environments where they are needed most, such as Christian colleges and universities.'"

Consistent and Faithful Witnesses

Emily Jones

June 15, 2021

General, Practical Justice, Race

Racial justice is a necessary part of the substantive call of discipleship, part of who we are called to be – day after day, year after year.

We Shouldn’t Know Their Names

Patricia Taylor

April 29, 2021

Church Life, General, Race

The dead become a statistic that we debate regarding who has the right idea about what they did and did not deserve, and in so doing we convince ourselves that we have been granted the rights as gatekeepers who hold the key to determining whether or not someone was worthy enough to finish living out their story.

The Christians Who Cannot Mourn Ma’Khia Bryant

Sy Hoekstra

April 27, 2021

Family and Parenting, Practical Justice, Race

Only syncretized faiths value the supremacy of human laws. We value truth. The truth is that the state took another Black girl from her family under the pretense of safety, and then it killed her.

When Children Learn They Are Black

Susan Smith

August 21, 2020

Family and Parenting, General, Race

This society does not give voice, as a rule, to the experiences little children carry about how they “learned” they were black in this country.

Antiracism Educators, Your Sources Matter

Veronica Gilliard

August 12, 2020

General, Practical Justice, Race, Women

If white people can only learn antiracism in siloed experiences, centered in whiteness, that ignore the contributions and ongoing work of people of color and women, we are doomed.

Wheat and Weeds: Thoughts on Cancel Culture

Britney Winn Lee

August 3, 2020

General, Practical Justice, Theology

When it comes to systemic injustice, we must deconstruct, defund, demolish, dismantle now and with courage. But when it comes to people? We can’t destroy the wheat for the weeds before the harvest.

The Disease Within a Disease

Scott Garber

July 30, 2020

General, Practical Justice, Race

But while that history helps to explain how our racial hierarchy arose, it doesn’t explain why it endures well into the 21st century—much less why we’re not trying very hard to get rid of it.