White Supremacy – Red Letter Christians

Whiteness is Rooted in Inadequacy (An Excerpt from Straight White Male)

June 6, 2022

We are worthy only because God has made it so. The irony is, nothing puts just how unlove-able we can be in starker relief than when we soothe our own insecurities by doing physical, economic, emotional and spiritual violence to our siblings of color.

The Beloved Community and the Heresy of White Replacement: How “Beyoncé Mass” Gave Me Hope After the Buffalo massacre

Robert P. Jones

May 17, 2022

Race, Theology

"...over the opening notes of Beyoncé’s “Halo,” which preceded communion, Rev. Dr. Norton also offered these words of hope: Repentance is not a one-time thing, but a developmental process, a journey that requires a confrontational truth-telling. The liberation and healing of the oppressed. Repentance and conversion of the oppressor. The building of the beloved community."

The Shooting in Buffalo Happened within a Context of Complicity with White Supremacy

Jemar Tisby

May 16, 2022

Gun Violence, Race

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.

7 Things White Christians Can Do to Address White Supremacy at Church

Robert P. Jones

March 20, 2022

Books, Church Life, Practical Justice, Race, Theology

I’m convinced that the most important thing white Christians can do is to simply start somewhere. And to start somewhere local.

A Moment of Reckoning for White Christians

Brandan Robertson

February 22, 2022

Church Life, Politics, Race, Theology

This is a moment of reckoning. White Christians have but two options set before us: to walk the narrow road with Jesus in the path of repentance of our exploitation of whiteness and Christian supremacy to ensure our diverse neighbors have a fair shot, or to continue walking on the broad road that exploits our privilege for our own benefit, where everyone not like us is viewed as an enemy to be marginalized so we can flourish.

“Nothing New Under the Sun”: Opposing Racism Today

Michael W. Waters

February 15, 2022

Books, Church Life, Race, Theology

White supremacy comes with a body count, and when racism reigns, death runs rampant, too.

Nominating a Black Woman to the U.S. Supreme Court Will Advance Justice and Democracy

Rhonda Thomas

February 11, 2022

Politics, Race, Women

To be clear, this appointment does not obliterate the president of his broader responsibility to the Black community. He still needs to raise the minimum wage and address housing insecurity, the climate crisis, student loan debt and voting rights. But the courts have been stacked with conservative white men for far too long.

An Excerpt From Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World – And How to Repair It All

Lisa Sharon Harper

February 7, 2022

Art, Books, Church Life, Race, Women

Standing before the court, eighteen-year-old Fortune was born free and should have remained free according to Lord Baltimore’s 1681 legal turnabout. But of course the application of law is different from the law itself.

This Book Will Be Banned

Jemar Tisby

January 31, 2022

Books, Family and Parenting, Politics, Practical Justice, Race

The manufactured hysteria about CRT and the 1619 Project puts any book that gives an honest accounting of racism at risk.

The Sacred Work of White Discomfort

Robert P. Jones

January 24, 2022

Family and Parenting, General, Politics, Race

The minimization or denial of the Holocaust is prohibited, but the minimization and denial of America’s treatment of Native Americans and African Americans is mandated.