Uncomfortable, Beautiful, Disruptive Change
Institutions change slowly. Individuals change slowly. If I change my diet and exercise patterns, it takes weeks for that change to register on a scale. If I start learning a…
Institutions change slowly. Individuals change slowly. If I change my diet and exercise patterns, it takes weeks for that change to register on a scale. If I start learning a…
"A black lady talks to a white cop.” That was the title of the essay Patricia Raybon wrote as a guest author on my blog six years ago. She described…
How do white parents talk with their children about race and racism? Why do white evangelical and Black Christians seem so socially and politically divided? How do our different stories…
I resisted offering “action items” for white people (like me) who wanted to DO something about injustice and inequity in our nation for a long time. I didn’t want to…
How can we talk about race and disability without conflating the two? How can white, able-bodied, neurotypical people enter into this conversation? What is the difference between “white fragility” and…
Robin DiAngelo’s book White Fragility has soared to the top of the non-fiction bestseller list. If you haven’t heard of it before, here’s a podcast interview with Jonathan Capehart in…
This week we celebrated the end of Penny’s years in middle school with a car parade through campus, a dinner out—for the first time in four months—as a family, and…
I started hearing and learning about Juneteenth a few years ago as a holiday where African Americans celebrated emancipation from slavery. I was a white woman writing about race and…
Twenty-one years ago, I moved to Monument Avenue, in Richmond, Virginia. The monuments that line the center of this thoroughfare that connects downtown Richmond to the suburbs are huge. Taller…
Race, class, and the kingdom of God all come up in this conversation between Amy Julia and David Bailey, Director of Arrabon, a ministry to help churches become reconciling communities.…