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November 2018

November 26, 2018

Repent, and Believe the Good News: Black Lives Matter!

Recently, a sitting United States Senator from Mississippi “joked” about being on the front row...

October 2018

October 23, 2018

The God of the “Also”

The question remains for the rest of us who do we consider to be “other”...

September 2018

September 25, 2018

CBF Podcast: Rethinking Incarceration, featuring Dominique DuBois Gilliard

We sat down with the activist, speaker, pastor and author about his new book, as...

September 10, 2018

Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion: A Conversation with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

By Andy Hale Among white Americans a widely-shared sentiment is the notion that racism is...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

CBF Podcast: Changing the Way the Church Sees Racism, Featuring Drew Hart

We are 50 years removed from the Civil Rights Movement and we can often act...

April 04, 2018

Memphis, Charlottesville & #MLK50

Where do we go from here? We commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. King...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

CBF Podcast: A Conversation with Jennifer Harvey

In Harvey’s new book, Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America,...

February 20, 2018

CBF Podcast: A Conversation with Melvin Bray

By Andy Hale We live such transient lives. For most, we no longer live in...

January 2018

January 15, 2018

From Protest to Beloved Community

Protest was and is the means to this holy end. Protest, in its many different...

September 2017

September 19, 2017

That Time a Woman Stood up in Church and Called Me a Muslim

As we go about our lives conveniently putting each other in neat, little boxes, sooner...

September 13, 2017

Podcast: A Conversation with Brian Zahnd

By Andy Hale Imagine what it would look like to dismantle the mega-church you started....

September 07, 2017

Monuments worth defending

While I am protesting and pointing out the sins of other people as they try...

August 2017

August 22, 2017

Dear Fellow WASPS — For the love of God and the love of thy neighbor

When we love our heritage, our flag, or our statues more than we love our...

August 21, 2017

I’m Not Racist But…

The events in Charlottesville, Va., this past week were horrendous, and the outpouring of resistant...

August 21, 2017

Why the Lost Cause is Winning

The problem, however, is that the very monuments that embody white Southerners necessarily disembody people...

August 16, 2017

Hate must not find a home

Sometimes pastors are cautioned about bringing politics into the pulpit. We must remember that the...

August 15, 2017

Confessions of a “moderate Christian” in Charlottesville on August 12

They say that confession is good for the soul. I pray that my confession may...

August 14, 2017

Conversations with my four-year-old about Charlottesville

“I don’t know, because we all matter to God.” This answer was at best incomplete....

August 12, 2017

Fear and Fearlessness in Charlottesville

Fear pervaded Charlottesville, Virginia. But fearlessness, both by those who led the counter-protests and those...

April 2017

April 12, 2017

Lenten Epiphanies and Racism

I could no longer deny that I have some deeply-buried biases. I could no longer...

February 2017

February 08, 2017

The cost of unity

Last Thursday, February 2, was Groundhog’s Day! But, I’ve been seeing a different kind of...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Francis, Forrest and Race

And part of our privilege as white people is the freedom to speak up…or not…because...

January 16, 2017

Remembering Dr. King’s call to pray together, work together and go to jail together

By Rev. Trey Lyon “Go to jail together?” I had heard it too, and the...

January 16, 2017

Holding onto Hope in a Journey of Awakening to Racial Injustice

On September 20th of last year, everything changed for me and other Charlotteans. Keith Lamott...

January 13, 2017

Naming Our Nation’s Idols

Perhaps we can all channel the spirits of St. Paul and Martin Luther King, Jr....

November 2016

November 16, 2016

Time to take up our crosses #BLM

Have we forgotten that we are to love all people? Some of our people are...

November 14, 2016

Liminal Whiteness

I never had the luxury of just being a human being; no one in our...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

#girlsmatter — Race and Human Trafficking

When I am more shocked and hurt by a white girl who ends up in...

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