How should a person or a people respond when their sisters and brothers are trying to kill them? How can the church watch the murderous intent of white supremacy and our society continue everyday shielded…
Our churches, our communities, and our organizations need institutional humility as much as any of us as individuals need humility; and our churches, communities, and organizations must support strong Black identity as much or more…
We need a way to justice, equality, but when white people try to “DO” the right thing, we take over. When white people try to just “BE”, we hardly ever change enough to make a…
The violence of White Supremacy continues on brazen public display… Leaders of government, of communities, of religious institutions are fanning the flames of racial discord. But with violence being brought to light and white people…
The Road to Nineveh: Episode 4 – History
- March 16, 2019
- Tagged as: church history, history, white supremacy
Our history is messy and broken. It is painful and traumatic. How do we learn, confront, remember, deal-with, integrate, and overcome our history? How can our history inform our faith and help keep us in…
I’m afraid. I’m afraid of failing my Black sisters and brothers. I still want to do the “right thing” but I keep living my life out of the socialized White Supremacy I’ve been taught. How…
The Road to Nineveh: Episode 3 – Centering Whiteness
- March 15, 2019
- Tagged as: Black Voices, Centering Whiteness, whiteness
How do we maintain and retain power in whiteness in the Church? How do we dethrone the standards of whiteness as the measure by which all other experiences are judged? What will it take to…
Can a Black man tell the White Church anything that we’ll hear? What scares the the White Church about Black Power? How do our socialized “progressive” views of power, neediness, charity, and race interfere with…
The Road to Nineveh: Episode 1 – White Comfort
- March 15, 2019
- Tagged as: Road to Nineveh, Whit Comfort, White Fragility
How do we make the shift from a calculus of White Comfort? If comfort means “with strength,” then how do we send people forth in the strength of the Gospel to become Beloved Community? How…
White Fragility: Robin DiAngelo on White Liberals Protecting Racism
- May 22, 2018
- Tagged as: Nigger-Gate
White fragility… The knee-jerk reaction Whites get in momentary racially stressful situations. Some people might want to deny the existence of White fragility, but if you take time to hear it – you’ll begin to…