COMMENTARY
RNS-Toyama-Szeto: Raise your signs and voices. Then raise your church’s race awareness
(RNS) — The church has so many resources at its disposal in terms of finances and people that can be put toward strategic action to change the racial climate of our society. After the protests are done, churches should look at their financial decisions, hiring practices and education programs through a lens of racial reconciliation. By Nikki Toyama-Szeto. 900 words. (category: k)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Wallis-Oped: Prayer is essential. Protest is required. Policy is necessary.
(RNS) — I have never in my life seen so many white people who care so deeply about America’s Original Sin, structural racial injustice, and the 400 years of violence against black lives, following the lead of their black brothers and sisters to voice that concern to the police and military, and all the political leaders behind them. By Jim Wallis. 1,316 words. (category: k)
