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Read more about the article Privilege, Monuments, and Healing

Privilege, Monuments, and Healing

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:June 17, 2020
  • Post category:Current Events/Podcast/Privilege and Race
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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…

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Read more about the article S3 E1 | Waking Up to Privilege with David Bailey

S3 E1 | Waking Up to Privilege with David Bailey

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:June 16, 2020
  • Post category:Podcast/Privilege and Race
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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.…

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Read more about the article Some Stories of Hope in a Week of Hardship

Some Stories of Hope in a Week of Hardship

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:June 8, 2020
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Hope and racism. Ta-Nehisi Coates is feeling hopeful.  I didn’t think I would ever type those words. Coates is famous for his 2015 memoir, Between the World and Me, in…

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Read more about the article Choosing to Be Present in Suffering

Choosing to Be Present in Suffering

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:May 27, 2020
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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…

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Read more about the article How Love Brings Power in the Midst of Powerlessness {Ep 109}

How Love Brings Power in the Midst of Powerlessness {Ep 109}

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:May 12, 2020
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I finished recording this week’s episode of the Love is Stronger than Fear podcast where I talked about how love brings power in the midst of powerlessness, and I realized…

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Read more about the article Head, Heart, Hands Audiobook

Head, Heart, Hands Audiobook

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 29, 2020
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I have a gift for you—a free audiobook of Head, Heart, Hands! After I wrote White Picket Fences, I heard back from many readers that they wanted more. They wanted to…

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Read more about the article How My Daughter Convinced Me We Can Help {Ep 107}

How My Daughter Convinced Me We Can Help {Ep 107}

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 28, 2020
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My Aunt Jane sent us five masks a few weeks ago (see photo). When the masks came, after we decided who gets which one and did a little modeling, I…

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Read more about the article Privilege, Social Divisions, and COVID-19

Privilege, Social Divisions, and COVID-19

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 15, 2020
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In White Picket Fences, I write, The privilege of whiteness and wealth can become a wall against the privilege of being human, loved not for status or performance but simply…

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Read more about the article COVID-19, Privilege, and What Keeps Us from Living in Love {Ep 105}

COVID-19, Privilege, and What Keeps Us from Living in Love {Ep 105}

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 14, 2020
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In recent weeks during COVID-19, we have seen acts of extreme and ordinary self-sacrifice. Doctors and nurses are working around the clock and putting themselves in harm’s way. Parents are…

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Read more about the article Almost-Forgotten Women and Undoing Injustice

Almost-Forgotten Women and Undoing Injustice

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:March 9, 2020
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Most Americans will never know their names, yet many women, through their actions, have contributed to the undoing of injustice. When we traveled to Montgomery, Alabama a few months ago,…

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