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February 2017

February 10, 2017

How White People Gather to Undermine White Supremacy

Last Sunday, two colleagues and I greeted a group of thirty-three people over a shared...

February 07, 2017

Practicing Solidarity: The Power of Churches to Challenge Hate

It is difficult to talk about these issues with white Christians in this country in...

July 2016

July 18, 2016

Just What is Xenophobia?

In the inestimable words of Inigo Montoya in the Princess Bride, “You keep using that...

July 12, 2016

Open Letter to Obama: Please DO something!

The country needs the President to do something. Your statements are important but they are...

July 09, 2016

What to Do About Our Crisis of Racial Injustice?

The problems that we face are not about the police. We do not need to...

May 2016

May 13, 2016

Has North Carolina become the “Hate State”?

Clearly, being Christian means something different to me than to many people in NC who...

April 2016

April 08, 2016

How To Be an Effective White Ally

To destroy racism we have to destroy the system that was built upon Black people’s...

April 05, 2016

Are Whites Guilty of Racism or Just Responsible For It?

White people want to believe that we are autonomous—that we are only being racist if...

April 03, 2016

Do White People Need Black Friends?

Of the white people I know who actively think and care about racism . ....

April 02, 2016

Reflections on Black Friends, Black Spaces, and White Identity

It felt vaguely colonialist for me to be coming to their space for just a...

April 02, 2016

The Perils of Negotiating Black Identity on a White Campus

I used to be the one to always speak out and speak my mind when...

April 01, 2016

Dialogue on Race: College Students Talk Across Racial Lines

One of the most vibrant memories I have was when I was in second grade,...

March 2016

March 07, 2016

What We Need to Learn from Trump

There is a problem in white America and it will not go away until we...

March 03, 2016

The Threat of Obama

Racism is a deep malignancy in the very core of our identity as Americans. A...

January 2016

January 08, 2016

What Does It Mean to Say “All Lives Matter?”

Now, many whites across this country have reacted in support of the Black Lives Matter...

December 2015

December 27, 2015

Is Tribal Christianity as Dangerous as Tribal Islam?

Stories of dysfunction and violence in Islamic countries and stories of institutional racism and xenophobia...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

What’s a White Christian to Do? Racism, White Privilege, and Stepping Up

White privilege and racism will not go away until we begin to address these problems...

September 10, 2015

Is a “Fair Trial” possible in a racist society?

Most of us aren’t trained to think about social problems in a structural way. When...

August 2015

August 14, 2015

What Christian Feminism Can Teach Us About Dealing with Our Racist Past

In the midst of a country where black lives appear expendable and some white people...