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Rebecca Florence Miller

Racial justice

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November 2017

November 30, 2017

A New Normal: Grief and Facing the Brokenness in Evangelicalism

My heart has ached and almost broken as I have seen leaders I admired again...

August 2017

August 26, 2017

Charlottesville, White Supremacy, and a Broken Heart

Many white people in this country are far more angry about removing statues than they...

August 08, 2017

Devastating, Searing, and Nuanced: Kathryn Bigelow’s DETROIT

I saw the film Detroit (directed by Kathryn Bigelow) this weekend. I left the theatre shaken,...

July 2017

July 01, 2017

Mourning With Those Who Mourn on the 4th of July

Why can’t Lecrae recount the history of his own ancestors? Why is it considered political...

June 2017

June 13, 2017

Praying the Serenity Prayer in an Unjust World

In the past couple of years, I have gone through the shattering experience of seeing...

May 2017

May 10, 2017

I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin and the Spiritual Deadness in White America

In the book of Revelation, the apostle John sees a vision in which God speaks...

May 06, 2017

Beyond the KKK: Getting at White Supremacy in the Church

When you try to speak to evangelical Christians today about white supremacy or white privilege,...

May 03, 2017

How White Conservatives Can Empathize with Black Americans’ Distrust of Police

The old adage goes, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." If you...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

Patriots (Not Pinheads) and the Right Side of History: Racism and Self-Justification

At the Montana Book Festival this weekend, I attended a panel called "Race, Privilege, and...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

Show Me a Hero: HBO’s Zeitgeisty Historical Miniseries Deals with Housing Desegregation in the ’80s

"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy," F. Scott Fitzgerald said....

June 2015

June 23, 2015

Personal Responsibility and Systemic Sin

One of the major problems in American Christian thought today is forced dichotomies where they...

June 19, 2015

In Awe of the Christian Saints of Charleston

Nine died during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South...

May 2015

May 02, 2015

How God Changed My Heart about Systemic Racism

I'm going to make an embarrassing admission. I did not really understand the deep concerns...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Baltimore Reminds Us We’re All Broken and Only Love Can Heal

When it comes to the situation in Baltimore, it is possible to say multiple things...

January 2015

January 12, 2015

Selma Is a Prophetic Clarion Call for Our Times. Here’s 7 Reasons Why.

1. There are many movies about courageous whites who stood up for blacks during the...

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