Author Archives
We are a collection of individuals with a passion for curating content for the church.
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ARTICLE: Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person
Penned from a person who grew up extremely poor the author sympathizes with why poor white people react vehemently against the term white privilege, but ultimately comes to the conclusion that white privilege does exist and perhaps why so many poor white people have a problem with the term is because classism is mixed up in the term.
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ARTICLE: American Christianity’s White-Supremacy Problem
A thorough history of the church and its complicity with racism and white supremacy doctrine. An excellent starting point to learning about the church and racism working hand in hand. The next step would be to read or watch The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby.
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BOOK: Gay Girl, Good God
Gay Girl Good God is a story of redemption not from the clutches of homosexuality, but of a life lived devoid of God. Jackie Hill Perry’s story fills the reader with hope not because it claims that its pages contain the secret to “curing” homosexuality, but because it points just one thing – God.
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ARTICLE: White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
An excerpt from the paper that started it all. Instead of categorically dismissing intersectionality, read the original paper and come to an opinion yourself. We found it to be compelling and a useful exercise to answer the twenty six questions included in the excerpt.
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BOOK: The Gospel in Color
Grounded in Genesis in the Imago Dei The Gospel in Color firmly traces the evolution of racism back to the garden of Eden when sin entered the world. But, Jesus coming into the world and dying on a cross allows us to be reconciled to him while modeling what it takes to be reconciled to each other.
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ARTICLE: No racial reconciliation without intersectionality and privilege
Professor Anthony Bradley says white evangelicals have to get comfortable using the terms white privilege and intersectionality to move the conversation beyond platitudes. White people must admit to their privilege not because they need to feel guilty, but to use their privilege for the poor and the oppressed.
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BOOK: The Trouble I’ve Seen
Primarily written to the American church pastor Drew Hart weaves personal narratives with a little bit of church history, a little bit of American history and a little bit of theological history as a call to the church to change the way it views racism.
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FIVE QUESTIONS: Politics
Five questions and five answers from some of the top questions Christians ask when they engage with politics.
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BOOK: Brown Church
The color of one’s skin is a driving force in how one experiences the world. A brown person’s experience is distinctly different from that of a white persons. With this lens Robert Chao Romero tells the history of the exploitation of his people on multiple continents while incorporating the birth of the brown church.
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BOOK: How to Fight Racism
How to Fight Racism by Jemar Tisby is a book to help you take the next step when you want concrete, actionable advice and recommendations on how work against racism. It is a Christian’s guidebook on being an anti-racist similar to how Compassion and Conviction is a guidebook for Christians engaging with politics.
