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Posts Categorized: Race
January 29, 2016
You can take the pastor out of the church, but you can’t take the Church out of the pastor. Nothing is wastedHow I am learning to compost the rotten stuff that comes up in life by Derrick L. Weston In early December I took at day trip to a farm. The unseasonably warm weather made… Read more »
January 26, 2016
Relevant truth telling with a queer twist An equal measure of graceIt’s hard to be vulnerable when you “represent” a whole sexual identity, race, or gender. by Layton E. Williams Last winter, I had an unexpected conversation with a new friend. We had known each other only casually through our common Presbyterian circles, but she… Read more »
November 24, 2015
Relevant truth telling with a queer twist My coming out helped me realize my white privilegeUniting women’s, LGBTQ, and racial justice movements by Layton E. Williams Five years ago, at Christmas, I went home for the holidays and announced to my family that I was planning on going to seminary. For the most part,… Read more »
November 13, 2015
You can take the pastor out of the church, but you can’t take the Church out of the pastor. We’re all God’s childrenWhat I feel, as a black father, when I see a South Carolina police officer throw a teenage girl across a room by Derrick L. Weston Ever since my divorce and subsequent… Read more »
November 9, 2015
A white man’s frank and repentant exploration of how racism finds a home in white folks’ souls. Perpetually numbed and easily shockedWhy the white soul remains untransformed in the face of so much racial injustice by Jeffrey A. Schooley Writing these columns for the past half-year has revealed to me what I only instinctually… Read more »
October 12, 2015
A white man’s frank and repentant exploration of how racism finds a home in white folks’ souls. Racism is not a feelingHow the white soul has trained itself to define racism solely as conscious hate (and how it needs a new catechism on race) by Jeffrey A. Schooley A long time ago, when my… Read more »
September 14, 2015
A white man’s frank and repentant exploration of how racism finds a home in white folks’ souls. Origin storiesHow confusion about my whiteness leads to confusion about blackness by Jeffrey A. Schooley Origin stories are an essential component to any worldview. From an origin story comes clarity not only about the past, but also… Read more »
September 11, 2015
Conversations with church leaders about projects that matter Interpreting race in a mostly white denomination Pastor and writer Tawnya Denise Anderson talks with Rocky Supinger about interpreting the experience of an African American woman in the PC(USA) through her ministry and her blog, Soula Scriptura. <—- Tawnya Denise Anderson (you can call her… Read more »
September 1, 2015
Seeing without categorizing How do you see me? An intimate portrayal of race, identity, and invisibility in the church and the United States by Anita Coleman I am invisible. . . . It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves. —Ralph Ellison “You hypocrite, first take… Read more »
August 27, 2015
Things that make you go hmm . . . Therapy Ain’t for Black Folk?! by Shanell T. Smith It’s all I see in movies.It’s all that I’ve heard spoken.“Black folk don’t do therapy.Unless he was a ‘token’Negros don’t believe in sittin’With no man to help to free usWe don’t need no medicationAll we needs,… Read more »
