Youth & Children

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Anti-racist formation of children and youth (2)
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Are we losing our ability to lament gun violence?

When the memory of one shooting blends into another, we start to become numb to the grief and guilt of America’s crisis of gun violence.

By Aleta Payne Senior associate editor, Faith & Leadership

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Anti-racist formation of children and youth

Faith communities can play a crucial role to counter efforts that limit what is taught about our nation’s past and present, including the banning of books and censoring of curriculum content. Most churches already have the mechanisms in place to offer formation. Here are resources to make those offerings practically, thoughtfully and intentionally anti-racist.

How churches can support diverse youth

By partnering to promote youth empowerment, places of worship can also promote better mental health for young people.

By Ryan DeLapp Psychologist

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Here's how churches can play a crucial role in the anti-racist formation of children and youth

Three explicit shifts can help shape programs that counter public efforts to limit teaching about racism and injustice.

By Henry Zonio Sociologist

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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.

By Michelle T. Sanchez Executive minister, Make and Deepen Disciples, Evangelical Covenant Church

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Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone talk anti-racism with middle schoolers

Against a backdrop of book banning, attacks on school curricula and the highly publicized death of yet another Black man after an incident of police violence, bestselling authors Kendi and Stone assure a group of North Carolina eighth graders of their humanity and equality.