Racism: My Upward Climb
Editor's Note: This article begins with a description of racialized violence that may upset some readers.
I watched the video of George Floyd’s murder from the comfort of my cozy living room. I cried as ...
The Shooting in Buffalo Happened within a Context of Complicity with White Supremacy
Editor’s note: this piece first appeared on the RLC blog on May 16, 2022.
On Saturday, May 14, 2022 a young man entered a grocery store in predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York and opened fir...
A White Person’s Guide to Racial Justice and Reconciliation
As a white person, speaking into the racial justice and reconciliation space can often feel like a loaded deliverable. Questions about the validity of my voice and how it should be presented & received, whi...
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How should we respond when our democracy is being torn asunder in the name of our Christian faith?
Recently I answered the call of Faithful America and local clergy to go to Batavia, New York, where white Chri...
The silence of the witnesses hurt more than the shouted bigotry
(RNS) — Recently, I visited my local DMV to renew my driver’s license. As I waited in a crowded room of about 25 people, a middle-aged man with a graying beard sat a couple of chairs away from me. Before he cou...
The Shooting in Buffalo Happened within a Context of Complicity with White Supremacy
If we look at shooters like the one in Buffalo as the only type of people to whom the phrase “white supremacist” applies, then we miss all the daily and common ways that countless others endorse the same ideas that undergirded his murderous actions.
A Call to the Transformational, Lifelong Work of Antiracism
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
"...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.'"
From Ferguson To Kiev: Dr. Bernice King to Join National Faith Leaders to Interrogate US Militarism at Home & Abroad
Returning to the site and sound of MLK’s legendary ‘Beyond Vietnam’ speech to examine the enduring evils of racism, materialism, and militarism 55 years later
NEW YORK – LIVE FREE USA joins The Quincy Instit...
7 Things White Christians Can Do to Address White Supremacy at Church
I’m convinced that the most important thing white Christians can do is to simply start somewhere. And to start somewhere local.