Showing posts with label racial reconciliation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racial reconciliation. Show all posts
Monday, May 22, 2017

Arlie Hochschild on Race as "Elephant in the Room" of Trump's America: "Racial Resentment Lies at the Very Heart" of the Story of Trump Voters

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For the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday, David Talbot interviewed Arlie Hochschild, author of the acclaimed book Strangers in Thei...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

White Churches and American Racism: Three Recent Statements — "Among Evangelicals, Race Matters, and Race Doesn't Matter"*

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4 in 5 white evangelicals, 3 in 5 white Catholics and Mormons — "pro-life" voters — brought us the Trump nightmare. I will no...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Remembering Martin Luther King: James Cone and Taylor Branch Talk to Bill Moyers

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Monday, August 29, 2011

Patricia A. Turner on "The Help": Oversimplifying Falsifies History

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I haven't seen the film version of Kathryn Stockett's book The Help , but I did read the book when it came out.  I thought it was ...
Monday, August 2, 2010

July Ends: Global Warning, Shirley Sherrod Story, and Roman Gay Priest Scandal

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On 30 July, Huffington Post featured a headline declaring, “Good Riddance, July.”  And that pretty much sums up my own feelings about the...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Bearing Witness: One Bread, One Body--The Revolutionary Implications of Communion

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Another of those postings in which I feel moved to bear witness to a gift that has come my way, the significance of which isn’t entirely pla...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

A Table with Room for All: Celebrating Steps to Racial Inclusion

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I awoke in the night with the picture at the head of this posting in my mind. It’s a picture taken from the first dinner the president-elec...