Tyre Nichols. Tyre Nichols. Tyre Nichols. Say His Name!
Say his name… #TyreNichols
His life matters. It more than matters - his life was, and is, precious. He should still be alive.
RLC Editor's Note: T...
As We Enter Black History Month, ‘Do Not De-Radicalize King’
Editor’s Note: Originally published on the RLC Blog January 31, 2018.
Editor’s Note: As we move towards the month where we celebrate the life o...
Racism: My Upward Climb
Editor's Note: This article begins with a description of racialized violence that may upset some readers.
I watched the video of George Floyd’s...
The Shooting in Buffalo Happened within a Context of Complicity with White Supremacy
Editor’s note: this piece first appeared on the RLC blog on May 16, 2022.
On Saturday, May 14, 2022 a young man entered a grocery store in predomin...
An Interview with Charles Keith, Impacted Communities Liaison of Death Penalty Action
Charles Keith is the brother of Kevin Keith and Impacted Communities Liaison of Death Penalty Action. This Advent, Red Letter Christians is highlighti...
It’s been a week since the Club Q shooting. Let’s not move on.
Note: This piece originally appeared in Religion News Service.
The LGBTQ community continues to bear a disproportionate amount of hateful gun violenc...
On Thanksgiving: An Honest Home in the Uncomfortable ‘Both’
But this little plot of land, where my son swings from oak branches beside the bayou . . . where we make mashed potatoes for three instead of twenty-three . . . where I call home . . . is much more than just a settler's trophy. We live in Caddo territory, or so it was before the Treaty of Cession of 1835.
Let’s Uproot the Bias that Holds Us Back
Book excerpt taken from Color-Courageous Discipleship: Follow Jesus, Dismantle Racism, and Build Beloved Community. (Waterbrook, November 2022) Permis...
A White Person’s Guide to Racial Justice and Reconciliation
As a white person, speaking into the racial justice and reconciliation space can often feel like a loaded deliverable. Questions about the validity of...
The silence of the witnesses hurt more than the shouted bigotry
(RNS) — Recently, I visited my local DMV to renew my driver’s license. As I waited in a crowded room of about 25 people, a middle-aged man with a gray...