Apprentice 2 Jesus

Racism

  • Remembering the murder of Philando Castile

    Yesterday was the 8th anniversary of the murder of Philando Castile. EIGHT YEARS. Read more

  • Juneteenth

    It is important to mark this day four years after it was set as a national holiday. It’s important to remember this year because, as whites, we’re back to some semblance of our “normal” and the maneuvering done to attack “CRT” and “woke” have helped re-establish white comfort. So, Juneteenth rolls around and people are… Read more

  • Racism and white moderates

    The problem of Dr. King’s day and our day, as pointed out by James Cone in The Cross and the Lynching Tree, is the silence of those who might have something to say, but don’t. Read more

  • The honesty of MLK Day

    After the assassination of Dr. King, Wheaton College decided to hold a memorial for the Civil Rights leader. Conservative white pastors were angry. Tim LaHaye of the “Left Behind” books fame, wrote the letter below to Wheaton in protest when he was a pastor. Read more

  • Lone gunman? Hardly

    Another mass shooting we “can’t do anything about.” Another racist motivation. But… another “lone gunman”? When are we going to wake up? A mass shooting in Jacksonville, FL over the weekend was again motivated by racial hatred. How do we know? The shooter left his manifestos before shooting up a Dollar General, killing three, and… Read more

  • From George Floyd to white comfort

    It’s been a little over three years since the murder of George Floyd. During COVID we came face to face with lynching and racism and couldn’t just pass on by because we were all stuck inside. So, what did we do? We turned phrases we didn’t understand (as White people) like “critical race theory” and… Read more

  • The prophetic words of Abraham Herschel

    “Prophecy is the voice that God has lent to the silent agony, a voice to the plundered poor, to the profaned riches of the world.” Anywhere injustice takes place, Heschel said, “few are guilty, but all are responsible.” We are all responsible for evil because only a world indifferent to suffering will tolerate injustice and… Read more

  • Brokenhearted

    “Being brokenhearted leads to clarity about our unwillingness to abide racist behavior. It is very disheartening to hear white people who are not trying to move beyond being allies try to explain acts of racist terror and other daily denigrations of people of color with oversimplifications instead of properly naming them. The energy generated from… Read more

  • Moving from an ally to something deeper

    “Ponder this: If you were dying, who would you prefer to be accompanying you on the journey — an ally or a fellow pilgrim?” — Catherine Meeks Read more

  • Yes, I see color

    “…I have concluded that for the most part such comments (“I don’t see color”) are an attempt to communicate a willingness to see beyond color. That’s admirable, but proclaiming not to see color does not get that point across very well. White people who are determined to confront racism in the outer world and in… Read more