Race, healing and changing the world
Ending racial trauma requires discipleship in order to overcome evil and achieve transformation, writes an author in this adapted excerpt from her new book.
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Peter Storey: Is the church here for the world or itself?
A retired white Methodist bishop from South Africa who worked with Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu to end apartheid urges American Christian leaders to take Christian nationalism seriously.
A white, progressive pastor reflects on the anti-racism work ahead
In the 1960s and ’70s, the work of justice for white people looked like writing letters, joining marches and signing petitions. But the work ahead is focused on economic justice as well as building relationships, writes a Baptist pastor emeritus.
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Mel Williams
Activist & Baptist pastor emeritus
Maggy Barankitse continues the work of peace after fleeing her home country
Nearly a quarter century after she began building Maison Shalom in Burundi, Maggy Barankitse was forced to begin again, helping refugees in Rwanda.
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.
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Edgar Villanueva
Author
How your church can be brave
If faith communities can find the courage to have difficult conversations, they may make progress in overcoming division. Here are some suggestions for how to do that.
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Elizabeth Hagan
Pastor
Peacemaking and reconciliation in divided spaces
Toxic theology and politics deepen conflict in places like Ireland, the Middle East and the United States. But following the example of Jesus helps people in conflict zones understand each other and move beyond the past, writes a Methodist minister who founded the nonprofit Rethinking Conflict.
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Gary Mason
Founder and director, Rethinking Conflict
John Pavlovitz: Let's work to become better humans
A North Carolina pastor and author discusses his upcoming book, being people of compassion and the importance of doing the work.
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.
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Stephanie Hunt
Journalist
Changing lives by changing how we live
There are steps we can take to help offset a purpose gap rooted in historical and contemporary oppressions, writes the senior director of learning design with the Forum for Theological Exploration.
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Patrick B. Reyes
Senior director of learning design, Forum for Theological Exploration
Darla Deardorff: Grassroots peacemaking can begin with sharing stories
How we tell our stories and how we listen to others can help us see beyond differences, according to an expert in international education and intercultural competencies.
