statues – Red Letter Christians

Should We Tear Down All the Statues?

July 28, 2020

This project, perfectly encapsulated in the building of a statue, has served to effectively shield white Americans from feelings of guilt or thoughts of reparation—but it has left us woefully unable or unwilling to fix systemically racist systems.

Deconstructing Symbols that Terrorize

Beck Lister

June 19, 2020

Global, Practical Justice, Race

We are seeing now that history is not as far in the past as we think it is, and something that is not symbolically significant to me may certainly mean something to others.

Repentance & Reconstruction: How to Unlearn Slaveholder Religion

Daniel Harrison

July 27, 2018

Books, Church Life, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Race, Theology

This level of racism was not born overnight.

America and the Loss of Collective Memory

Angela Denker

May 28, 2018

Interfaith, Practical Justice, Race, Theology

Collective memory, even painful collective memory, can be a great force for binding together communities, faith groups, and even nations.

History Through the Eyes of the Poor & Oppressed

Tony Campolo

September 13, 2017

General, Global, Race

In the heated rhetoric these days, it's important to not only know what happened before and after the Civil War, but also, why it happened. Perhaps the time has come for we Americans to rewrite much of our own history.