reparations – Red Letter Christians

An Excerpt from “Reparations: A Plan For Churches”

February 14, 2023

Christian Nationalism, Interfaith, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice, Race

Introduction Six years ago, Georgetown University acknowledged that in 1838 it sold 272 enslaved people of African descent to prop up its failing finances. The university followed that acknowledgment with a pr...

H.R. 40 (REPARATIONS NOW)

Common Hymnal

August 9, 2022

Practical Justice, Race

"While it might be convenient to assume that we can address the current divisive racial and political climate in our nation through race neutral means, experience shows that we have not escaped our history. Tho...

Reflections from a Recovering Christian Nationalist Leading to the Anniversary of January 6th

Liz Daye

January 4, 2022

Christian Nationalism, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Race

I didn’t know it at the time, but I was being thoroughly discipled in Christian Nationalism: the idolatrous entangling of God and country for the sake of power.

Poverty: Jesus, Jubilee, and Reparations

Jon Mathieu

September 25, 2020

General, Practical Justice, Theology

God clearly was not concerned with capitalist sensibilities. God’s sense of justice was not constrained by the laws of the free market or Friedman’s shareholder theory. What is fair and right and just in God’s eyes is for no one to live in poverty

Why Should I Reparate?

Geoffrey Baron

September 3, 2020

Church Life, General, Practical Justice, Race

There is a certain amount of community guilt that comes with all the benefits of being an American. As Christians, we should know this. Did you eat the fruit in Eden? I didn't eat the fruit. There is no way I would have eaten the fruit. Everyone says the same thing when it comes to slavery.