Category: justice
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the good stuff is in the comments
I promise this will be the last time the Urban Exile post about race and racism is referenced here. However, yesterday I read two insightful comments on this post that ought to be highlighted. Karen, who is the resident expert on the Orthodox Church around here, writes, In Orthodox spirituality, it is understood that no…
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responding to comments about racism
The sentiments (as I perceive them) behind the first three comments on my Our of Ur post are the very reason we have to continue to talk in our churches about racism and class divisions. While the commenters find such conversations to be unhelpful, tiresome, and counter-productive, I believe the opposite to be true. What…
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urban exile: the silence of the lambs
The latest Urban Exile column has been posted at Out of Ur. In this column I ask questions about the reticence of many churches to talk about race and racism. I’m grateful for the helpful suggestions made by the Leadership Journal editors about the content I submit; I’ve learned a lot about writing from those…
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does ignoring racism = ignoring the gospel?
I first saw this Barry Deutsch cartoon over at the Mustard Seed Associates blog. [Click the cartoon for a larger version.] In the corresponding article, Tom Sine writes about the gulf between white privilege and the ethics of God’s coming Kingdom. Usually, we are not aware that we benefit from white privilege and white power.…
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has obama’s election fulfilled dr king’s dream?
Last week I mentioned that one of the questions the media seemed particularly interested in during the presidential inauguration was whether Dr Martin Luther King’s dream had been realized in Barack Obama’s presidency. The assumption, as I understand it, is that since an African American man has been elected to the nation’s highest office we…
David W. Swanson 