Racial Reconciliation

Jimmy McCarty 10-06-2008

My mother is an immigrant from Korea who has worked as a janitor in a hospital and waitress in a Korean restaurant. My father is a white guy from a small town in Tennessee who has been a soldier and dock worker.

Gabriel Salguero 9-09-2008

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I've been following the recent online conversation about racial reconciliation and the New Monastics rather closely. Why? Because it is a conversation whose time has come. I honestly believe that [...]

Sharaya Tindal 9-08-2008

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The very first mark of the New Monastic movement is to relocate to the abandoned places of the empire. However, after quick research, most of the social justice-geared intentional communities I found were either [...]

Jim Wallis 9-03-2008

Most of the speeches at the Democratic National Convention were politically predictable; the same was true on the first night of the Republican National Convention. Sarah Palin's speech tonight will be worth watching, considering all the attention her nomination has received, and of course John McCain's acceptance speech on Thursday night will be very important, just as Barack Obama's was in Denver.

But one thing looked very different on the first night of the Republican [...]

Shane Claiborne 9-02-2008

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Vonetta and Jason, first I want you to know that I am deeply grateful for the conversation you've invited and stirred with our private conversations and now

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In August 2006, before having ever heard the term "new monasticism," my husband, Jason, and I founded Radical Living, an intentional community in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. When I (Vonetta) was 12 years old, I emigrated from Guyana to [...]

Apologies for slavery must be followed by steps to justice.
Darren Hughes 6-01-2008

In early 1940, just months before he would die while fleeing the Gestapo in Spain, the Jew­ish-German literary critic Walter Benjamin assembled his “Theses on the Philosophy of History,&r

James H. Cone 7-01-2007

Why the environmental movement and the racial justice movement need each other.

The Southern soul - and community - of Stax Records.
Meg E. Cox 12-01-2006

John Perkins' pioneering ministry has shown that true racial reconciliation can only come with economic and political empowerment.

Robert Roth 8-01-2006

It is natural for people of faith to ally with secular organizations and approaches. We may even see the spirit of God in movements that bring life and hope.

Robert Roth 6-01-2006
At its best the church is an "innocence project" for ourselves and others.
For the next 54 years, Anne Braden was a solid citizen of 'the other America.'
Rose Marie Berger 6-01-2006
Many pentecostals trace their spiritual heritage to the Azusa Street revival.
Deanna Wylie Mayer 2-01-2006
America's first truth and reconciliation commission tries to bring healing to a divided community.