Reconciling Faith and Race

[originally posted at UrbanMinistry.org]
In December 1955 an overworked black woman from Tuskegee, Alabama sat down in a place on a Montgomery bus that was not her place. Or so she'd been told. She was arrested and… Continue

Author and journalist Carleen Brice did something unusual. The activist/author of Orange Mint and Honey started a blog, WelcomeWhiteFolks.blogspot.com , and declared December to be National Buy a Book by a Black Author a… Continue

When I was a kid I read lots of books. Did you?

I was the book worm, the nerd, the geek, the brown kid with four eyes. Yeah, I got picked on for reading 'too much.' It bothered me a little, don't get me wrong, but not enough to stop me from reading.

I read anything I could get my hands on. Strawberry Girl, 1984, Black Boy, Popular Mechanics, Campus Life, Vogue Knitting, the encyclopedia. The topic didn't matter. I just liked reading. It was an escape. It was my lifeline. Truth be told, it didn… Continue

The post below is from my December 2007, part of the 17Seeds.com series on faith and race in Christian fiction.

Take part in the 2008 Reconciling Faith & Race series on LLHargrove.com.

This week's question: "How many books by authors of color did you read this year?" Visit LLHargrove.com and share.

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SEX, LIES, AND SOME OTHER STUFF
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Reconnecting, a process

Reconciliation, simply put, is based on the assumption that at one point there was a connection. The information below is given to help us move forward, with hope and excitement, toward that reconnection.

Listen. Learn. Love.

1. Educate yourself.

* Study the scriptures, what do they have to say about race and racism. I challenge you to start with these scriptures with racial reconciliation in mind: 2 Corinthians 5:16-21, John 4:3-9, John 5:23-24,… Continue