I had a great conversation with Jon Ward (Yahoo! News) recently about how I came to the work of writing about race, faith, and justice after a career in medicine. We talked about our polarized times, the importance of nuance,… Read More ›
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Becoming Just Disciples in an Unjust World
Note: This is a dynamic document. A little over a month ago, a church in Dallas asked me to help them develop a discipleship plan that would foster growth in their congregation in the area of racial justice. The church… Read More ›
Race: What Is It?
God created human diversity, but it is humans who created race and narratives of racial difference/hierarchy. Perhaps nothing illustrates the point more clearly than the fact that “All human beings are 99.9 percent identical in their genetic makeup.” Remarkably, God has designed… Read More ›
Glitches in Dialogues About Race
Over the last five days, I played catch-up on the myriad of responses to both Ekemini Uwan’s on-stage interview at the Sparrow Conference on March 30th in Dallas, Texas and the subsequent actions of the conference organizers, including this 5-sentence… Read More ›
What’s Playing on Your Station?: The Racialized Messages that Shape Our Identity
Most of us don’t spend time thinking about the fact that we’re surrounded by invisible communication signals. They travel largely unnoticed through the air we breathe in the form of radio frequencies, infrared signals, microwaves, and other kinds of electromagnetic… Read More ›
A Biblical Approach to Overcoming Racial Discourse Allergy
When people start talking about race and racism, do you experience a range of negative emotions, an elevation in blood pressure, increased heart rate, sweaty palms, heartburn, chest tightness, or a knot in the pit of your stomach? If so,… Read More ›
Translation Issues in Dialogues About Race
Have you ever started a conversation about race with a person who looks different from you and at some point found yourself recoiling and saying, “Why are you freaking out on me? What did I say?” Most of us have… Read More ›
Healing the Racial Rift in the U.S., Beginning with the Church
There have been so many excellent, insightful, and powerful pieces written about Ferguson and the state of race relations in our country over the past several months and this past week in particular that I didn’t think I had much… Read More ›
What Color Am I?: Why White People Avoid Talking About Race and Why People of Color Keep Bringing It Up
“My parents raised me to be colorblind, so I see everyone as the same color,” one of my white friends proudly declared to me over lunch one day. Colorblind. I’m going to have to admit that when it comes to… Read More ›
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