Racism – Page 15 – Red Letter Christians

The Red Flag: What White People Can Do About Racism

September 27, 2011

My church (Iglesia del Barrio) is located in the neighborhood called Kensington, known as one of the most economically oppressed neighborhoods in Philadelphia, as well as the home to several of the top ten dr...

End the Silence of the Good People – What White People Can Do About Racism

Chris Lahr

September 20, 2011

General

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” – MLK Jr Over the last few ...

Oh Crap I'm White. . .What White People Can Do About Racism

Chris Lahr

September 15, 2011

General

One of the privileges of being white is that you do not have to think about race. On TV if a black person does something illegal you often hear about it, whereas if the guilty party is white, the reporter by...

Moving on the Block: What White People Can Do About Racism

Chris Lahr

September 9, 2011

General

“What white people can do about racism” as a blog series is not so much a “how to” manual to end racism, as much as it is a reflection on a journey and a call to join a life-long journey of racial justice. Al...

The Great White Hope? What White People Can Do About Racism

Chris Lahr

August 26, 2011

General

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I attend a congregation called, Iglesia del Barrio (IDB), which translated into English means “church of the neighborhood.” The congregation is made up of predominantly Puerto Rican folks who have lived most...

With Morbid Silence: Christian Denial in an Age of Economic Disparity

Erin Echols

August 25, 2011

General, Politics

Whether it is in our passionate recitation from the one line of the one Martin Luther King speech we’ve actually read or the long clap that followed our now President’s suggestion that “There’s not a black Amer...

The Majority Needs Diversity More Than The Minority

Chris Lahr

August 19, 2011

General

A couple months ago I was at a one-day conference on raising money and sustaining your sport’s club. Working with Timoteo, a flag football ministry in Philly that mentors young men, I was eager to learn how ...

Like Fish Out of Water. . .What White People Can Do About Racism

Chris Lahr

August 12, 2011

General

Several years ago I was taking an Evangelism class at Asbury Seminary. We had a guest speaker come to our class who was an anthropology/ missiology professor. I was immediately drawn to him as he sported a ki...

The Myth of the Melting Pot: What White People Can Do About Racism

Chris Lahr

August 5, 2011

General

One thing I know about white people is that we like results (or as Larry the Cable Guy often says, we like to “git er done”). Another thing I have noticed, particularly in the Church, is that if we don’t thi...

The Pollution of Racism: What White People Can Do About Racism

Chris Lahr

July 29, 2011

General, Race

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world (James 1:27). I love my job with Miss...