[blockquote type=”center”]In Harrison, Arkansas, in 1905, white “rioters swept through Harrison‘s black neighborhood with terrible intent. The mob of 20 or 30 men, armed with guns and clubs, reportedly tied men to trees and whipped them, tied men and women together and threw them in a 4-foot hole in Crooked Creek, burned several homes, and…
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An Integrated Life – Our Racist Foundations
I’m starting a new series for a month or so based on the book Sundown Towns, and how we can use it to inspect the whiteness of our lives. It will feature several short posts, and hopefully it will give you a good feel for the book, especially for the people who don’t have time to…
An Integrated Life – A Series
I’m starting a new series for a month or so based on the book Sundown Towns, and how we can use it to inspect the whiteness of our lives. It will feature several short posts, and hopefully it will give you a good feel for the book, especially for the people who don’t have time to…
Solidarity and Poverty
[blockquote type=”center”]What does solidarity with the poor look like when you’re trying to avoid generational poverty?[/blockquote] This is a question I’ve been sitting with for awhile now. And I read this article earlier today that made me think some things. I was born in 1981, so I’m just barely a millennial, and my…
How To Be A Racial Accomplice In Only 80 Easy Steps!!!
I hope it goes without saying, but when you spend 33+ years being white, in white culture, spending only a couple of years learning about race is a drop in the bucket. But after having a few different conversations over the past few weeks, my journey so far has been swirling around in my head and I wanted…
Convergence-Emergence: Same Shit, Different Decade
[blockquote type=”center”] “Reconciliation can be understood as exchanging places with ‘the other,’ overcoming alienation through identification, solidarity, restoring relationships, positive change, new frameworks, and a rich togetherness that is both spiritual and political.” Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism (p12) [/blockquote] It’s been 14 years since A New Kind of Christian. 10 years since…
Untangling the Threads
Guess who has no idea on what’s appropriate for a college admission’s essay? This girl! I started writing and remembered this post from a couple of years ago, and updated and edited it, and this is roughly what I handed in. I’m sure it could be better, especially now that I’m re-reading it after I…
Civil Rights Recap in Videos
With the 50th anniversary of the Selma march tomorrow, I wanted to bring all my kids up to speed on everything and place the current events within a historical framework. So we just sat and watched short videos for the last hour, and I just wanted to share them in case anyone else found them…
Deconstructing Christian Whiteness
A toddler builds a tower out of blocks. He knocks it down and starts again, examining the blocks as he builds. He examines the colors, shapes, sizes, as he builds his creation. How often do we kick down the towers we’ve built and look at the pieces? [line] Black voices surrounded me, singing words like…
A Systemic Greediness
[blockquote type=”center”]”Those who are living in anxiety and fear, most especially fear of scarcity, have no time or energy for the common good. Anxiety is no adequate basis for the common good; anxiety will cause the formulation of policy and of exploitative practices that are inimical to the common good, a systemic greediness that precludes…