How the Stories of Our Past Shape Our Future
These days, I think many of us feel weary. Weary in advocacy, weary of politics, weary and wondering if the change we hope for is possible. I recently wrote, in reference…
S6 E22 | Why Stories of Hope Subvert Racism with John Blake
Is racism baked into our nation’s DNA? Is there any hope for change? John Blake, a CNN journalist and author of More Than I Imagined, explores the personal and social…
S6 E13 | How a Mystery Series Tells Black History with Patricia Raybon
What is casual racism? How did a non-fiction writer end up writing a mystery series? Author Patricia Raybon talks with Amy Julia Becker about faith and “casual racism,” Black history…
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The Insidious Racism of Assimilation
Assimilation is an insidious form of racism and sexism and ableism and all the other isms. It’s subtle, because it comes in the form of an invitation, not an explicit…
New Haven Racial History Tour
We’ve traveled down south with our kids to learn the history of racial injustice there. But how do we narrate the reality of northern complicity in racial injustice? We started…
The Link-Up (April/May 2022)
Here are my top 5 recommendations of what to read or listen to from the past month that I shared in my monthly update (you can subscribe to the updates…
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A Glimpse of Hope for Healing the Wounds of Racism
I’ve struggled a bit this past week to understand how much the Buffalo shooting should be understood in a wider context of racism in the United States. Esau McCaulley’s essay…
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The Problem of Insidious White Supremacy
At church on Sunday, we prayed for the families of the victims of last weekend’s horrific and racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, NY. In our small, predominantly white, New England…
Teaching Our Children What We Are FOR
Eboo Patel’s essay for the New York Times Tuesday reminded me that I want to teach our kids what we are FOR as a family. So we support restrictions on…
S5 E12 | Racism: Can Learning History Bring Healing? with Lisa Sharon Harper
Learning the history of enslavement and racism illuminates the path to repentance and repair. Lisa Sharon Harper, leading faith and race activist and author of Fortune, looks at the power…
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