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Recognizing and strategically leveraging privilege is a discipleship opportunity
Through passages like Acts 6, the Bible makes clear how privilege must be recognized and addressed — and the benefits of doing so, writes an author and leader in racial righteousness and reconciliation.
Link to author Dominique D. Gilliard
By Dominique D. Gilliard
Director of racial righteousness and reconciliation, Evangelical Christian Church
Religious boarding schools harmed generations of Indigenous people. Churches must take responsibility.
For decades, churches in the U.S. and Canada were central to separating Native children from their families.
Link to author Edgar Villanueva
By Edgar Villanueva
Author
Tiffany Childress Price: Critical race theory isn't confusing. The conflicts surrounding it are.
Amid all the controversy about critical race theory, an educator sees the possibilities offered by having the painful conversations.
Link to author Angie Hong
By Angie Hong
Worship leader, writer and speaker
The audacity: When Black women decide for themselves
As Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka have shown, society struggles when Black women prioritize their own well-being.
Link to author Khristi Lauren Adams
By Khristi Lauren Adams
Author
Those who deny the history of white supremacy preserve its presence
Efforts to undermine critical race theory are really attempts to undercut the truth, writes a national leader with the United Church of Christ.
Link to author Traci D. Blackmon
By Traci D. Blackmon
Associate General Minister, United Church of Christ
The path to reparations
Beyond the first step of acknowledgment, some faith communities are taking up concrete reparations as a way of demonstrating authentic repentance for their role in systemic oppression.
Link to author Cynthia R. Greenlee
By Cynthia R. Greenlee
Journalist
Rehabbing hate, a pastor’s lifelong ministry of protest and hope reverberates
In Laurens, South Carolina, faithful commitment undergirds an effort to transform a space tainted by white supremacy into a center for justice.
Link to author Stephanie Hunt
By Stephanie Hunt
Journalist
A church that grows together protests together
During the uprising that swelled after the murder of George Floyd, a Minneapolis congregation found that it already had the character and resources to respond faithfully.
Link to author Todd Nelson
By Todd Nelson
Journalist
We need to talk about white belief
If our efforts toward racial reconciliation in the United States are rooted in white belief, they will serve only to erase difference and center whiteness, says a professor.
Link to author Oluwatomisin Oredein
By Oluwatomisin Oredein
Professor, Brite Divinity School
Jennifer Harvey: Dismantling racism requires knowing our history
In the second edition of her book, the author of “Dear White Christians” reiterates that listening and responding to calls for reparations precedes the possibility of reconciliation.
