So, I’m not a designer, obviously. But I had fun in Photoshop anyway. I found some quotes of Dr. King that offer an alternative to all of the ‘choose love’ quotes people love to post around this time. If you click on the images, it’ll take you to the full version. Download them, print them…
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Where White People Should Start
[blockquote type=”center”] I guess all we can really do toward racial reconciliation is work on our own selves, right? Prioritizing understanding over self-defense is a good first step (although a doozy). Being heard is THE prerequisite to healing conversations. If you try to understand me then I automatically want to try to understand you. Humility…
Incarnation and Solidarity – What Do They Even Mean?
The world is dark and heavy, and it has been raining or misting here in this corner of Virginia pretty much since Thanksgiving. The humid air holds the light. It reflects the orange glow of the streetlights, and if I imagine hard enough, it looks like the haze of a soft Christmas snow. How does…
The First Thanksgiving – A Day of Mourning
“Reconciliation without meaningful restitution merely reinscribes the status quo without holding anyone accountable for ongoing injustices. At its core, reconciliation has a religious connotation premised on restoring one’s relationship with God. In fact, most Indigenous nations don’t have words for reconciliation in their languages, which is the truest test of its lack of relevance…
Myth of America – The Clash of Spiritualities
The First Thanksgiving – Fears, Power, and Privilege
“In New England no William Penn emerged to suggest that the English immigrants might live peaceably with the natives, on the divine theory that they, too, were children of the universal spirit…..There was simply not the confidence and wisdom and political skill to make one culture of two that were not that different.” –…
The First Thanksgiving – for a Massacre
The Pilgrims had many days of Thanksgiving, which were somber prayer-filled days, as well as festivals to celebrate the harvest. But one of their first Thanksgiving Proclamations was over the Pequot Massacre. “In 1637, the Pequot War culminated in the burning of Fort Mystic by the English and their allies, killing hundreds of Pequot…
The Mayflower Compact – for God and King and White America
In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc. Having undertaken for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of…
Pilgrims – God’s Provision at the Expense of Other People
“Thanksgiving was the third and most exalted of Plymouth’s trinity, holier even than the Mayflower and the Rock. It carried the story of America’s founding out of Plymouth and into millions of homes, renewing memory of the Pilgrims each autumn over turkey, sweet potato, and pumpkin pie. The only people who might be surprised by…
Being Comfortable with Oppression
There have been a few posts out lately that I’ve been thinking about. You don’t need to read them before continuing, but they might give some context to this post. “Yet it is on the whole a kindly society, for wars and depressions have victimized both whites and blacks. Their shared experiences have…