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A Former Confederate State Just Voted To Abolish Its Death Penalty

Shane Claiborne
February 6, 2021
Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Race
But it’s worth celebrating Virginia, the “home of the Confederacy,” as the first state in the old Confederate South to abolish the death penalty. The two facts are related, because the death penalty cannot be separated from our history of race and slavery in America. 

Deconstructing Symbols that Terrorize

Beck Lister
June 19, 2020
Global, Practical Justice, Race
We are seeing now that history is not as far in the past as we think it is, and something that is not symbolically significant to me may certainly mean something to others. 

Repentance & Reconstruction: How to Unlearn Slaveholder Religion

Daniel Harrison
July 27, 2018
Books, Church Life, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Race, Theology
This level of racism was not born overnight.

Moment of Decision for Evangelicals

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
April 27, 2018
Church Life, General, Politics, Race
Donald Trump did not create the crisis we now face, but his presidency is exposing the truth about who we are as evangelicals — not a movement divided between left and right, but a people of faith who must now choose between slaveholder religion and the Christianity of Christ.
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