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“If it’s not good enough for my child, then why are we putting any children in those schools?”
If you not already heard it, this Fresh Air interview with New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones about public school segregation is essential listening. A taste: The original mission of public schools … is this understanding that no matter where you come from, you will go into the doors of a school and every child will receive…
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“We are not Chi-raq…”
Chicago is arguably the capital of black America. The legacy of African Americans reverberates from the Johnson Publishing Company, with its flagship publication Ebony, to multiple black hair-care companies to the first black US congressman elected in the north. All of this before Oprah Winfrey set roots here. It’s not by accident, then, that the…
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Theology of Joy: Willie James Jennings with Miroslav Volf
Some wonderful, imaginative stuff here from two of my favorite church-focused theologians.
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“That’s the difference between the mob whipped into a frenzy by a demagogue and the protesters…”
Institutional neglect of racism and injustice is the exercise of power, the kind of power that refuses to notice and refuses to act. Protest of moral and historic force begins with people facing extreme vulnerability. For those who have been silenced, rising to the act of speaking is a perilously high climb indeed. For them,…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
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