Forgiveness, Racial Healing, and Justice
What role does forgiveness play in the work of racial healing and justice? On my podcast this week, I am replaying an interview with my friend Niro Feliciano. This conversation…
What role does forgiveness play in the work of racial healing and justice? On my podcast this week, I am replaying an interview with my friend Niro Feliciano. This conversation…
#Blacklivesmatter. Cancel culture. Free speech. Antiracism. Marxism. Classical liberalism. Democracy. These are the ideas, words, themes that have been swirling in my brain for the past few weeks. Is Antiracism…
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said that 11 a.m. on Sunday morning was “the most segregated hour of the week” across the United States. Fifty years after…
Natasha Sistrunk Robinson began her career as a United States Marine and later worked in the Department of Homeland Security. She is now an author, speaker, and leader. Today we…
Six years ago, I decided to run a series of essays on my blog at Christianity Today about racial reconciliation and healing within the church. I commissioned essays from writers…
"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…
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…
When I was deciding what chapters to record for this Reading Small Talk podcast, I skimmed through the whole book. But when I got to the chapter on Prayer, I…
For people like me—for people who are white and live in affluence and stability—stories like that of George Floyd are easy to ignore. In the past, I have told myself…