1Michael O. Emerson, People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), 41.
2Ibid.
3“Mission and Vision: The Eight Core Principles of the Center for Action and Contemplation,” Center for Action and Contemplation, https://cac.org/about-cac/missionvision.
1Beverly Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, rev. ed. (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 20.
2Sherwood G. Lingenfelter and Marvin K. Mayers, Ministering Cross-Culturally: A Model for Effective Personal Relationships (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2016), Kindle loc. 5.
3Richard Brislin and Tomoko Yoshida, Intercultural Communication Training: An Introduction (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994), 118.
4Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids, Kindle loc. 59.
5W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (New York: Dover Publications, 1903), 2.
6Alistair Bonnett, “White Studies: The Problems and Projects of a New Research Agenda,” Theory, Culture & Society 13, no. 2 (1996): 146.
1David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books, 2007), 72.
2Dictonary.com, s.v. “white supremacy,” dictionary.com/browse/white-supremacy.
3Italics added. Read the entire Declaration of Independence at www.constitutionfacts.com/us-declaration-of-independence/read-the-declaration. The sentence referring to natives as “merciless Indian savages” is at the end.
4Italics added. National Archives, “America’s Founding Documents: Constitution,” www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html.
5Gregory Rodriguez, “Mongrel America,” The Atlantic, January/February 2003, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/01/mongrel -america/305956/.
6Ibid.
7Tal Kopan, “What Donald Trump Has Said About Mexico and Vice Versa,” CNN, August 31, 2016, www.cnn.com/2016/08/31/politics/donald-trump-mexico-statements.
8Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (New York: Little, Brown, 1998), 101-2.
9Beverly Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, rev. ed. (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 154.
10Kenyon Chan and Shirley Hune, “Racialization and Panethnicity: From Asians in America to Asian Americans,” in Toward a Common Destiny: Improving Race and Ethnic Relations in America, ed. W. D. Hawley and A. W. Jackson (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995), 210; cited in Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids.
11Transcribed from the PBS series Race—The Power of an Illusion, episode 3, “The House We Live In,” executive producer Larry Adelman (California Newsreel, 2003), www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-about-03.htm.
12If you are not yet familiar with his work, learn more about him: he is author of the bestselling Just Mercy and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative (eji.org). His speech on injustice, “We Need to Talk About an Injustice,” TED, March 2012, can be viewed at www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice?language=en.
13Corey G. Johnson, “Bryan Stevenson on Charleston and Our Real Problem with Race,” interview with Bryan Stevenson, The Marshall Project, June 24, 2015, www.themarshallproject.org/2015/06/24/bryan-stevenson-on-charleston-and-our-real-problem-with-race.
14C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory and Other Essays (San Francisco: Harper, 1976), 46.
1If you’re interested in immersing yourself in a more accurate view of how America was discovered, consider reading Mark Charles’s Truth Be Told, coauthored by Soong-Chan Rah, which explores the Doctrine of Discovery.
2“Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror,” Equal Justice Initiative, 2nd ed., 2015, http://eji.org/lynchinginamerica.
3Carlos Ruiz, “Embodying a Disruptive Journey,” in Intercultural Ministry: Hope for a Changing World, ed. Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Jann Aldredge-Clanton (Valley Forge, PA: Judson, 2017) 62-63.
4Mark Charles, “Doctrine of Discovery: Part II,” Red Letter Christians, April 12, 2016, www.redletterchristians.org/doctrine-discovery-part-ii/.
1Christopher Ingraham, “Three Quarters of Whites Don’t Have Any Non-White Friends,” Washington Post, August 25, 2014, www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three-quarters-of-whites-dont-have-any-non-white-friends.
2Robin DiAngelo, “White Fragility,” International Journal of Critical Pedagogy 3 (2011): 58.
3Ibid.
4Ibid., 54.
5Lecrae, Twitter feed, July 4, 2016, https://twitter.com/lecrae/status/750012773212401665?lang=en.
6Daniel Hill, 10:10: Life to the Fullest (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2014). I recommend reading Surprised by Hope by N. T. Wright and Generous Justice by Timothy Keller if you’re looking for a good place to start on this topic.
7Hill, 10:10, 31.
8Quoted in Sam Adler-Bell, “Why White People Freak Out When They’re Called Out About Race,” interview with Robin DiAngelo, Alternet, March 12, 2015, www.alternet.org/culture/why-white-people-freak-out-when-theyre-called-out-about-race.
9Amy S. Choi, “PopTech’s Andrew Zolli on Resilience and Solving World Problems,” Entrepreneur, January 9, 2013, www.entrepreneur.com/article/225428.
1Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (New York: Penguin, 2012), 68-69.
2Ibid., 72-73.
3Ibid.
4Ibid.
5Ibid.
6Soong-Chan Rah, Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015), 64-65.
7Ibid., 68.
8Ibid., 57-58.
9Brené Brown, “Listening to Shame,” TED Talks, March 16, 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=psN1DORYYV0.
10Rah, Prophetic Lament, 45-46; quoting Adele Berlin, Lamentations (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004), 24.
11Ibid., 47.
12Dan Allender, “The Hidden Hope in Lament,” Mars Hill Review 1 (1994): 25-38.
1As recounted in Susan Krauss Whitbourne, “In-Groups, Out-Groups, and the Psychology of Crowds,” Psychology Today, December 10, 2010, www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201012/in-groups-out-groups-and-the-psychology-crowds.
2Sam Adler-Bell, “Why White People Freak Out When They’re Called Out About Race,” interview with Robin DiAngelo, Alternet, March 12, 2015, www.alternet.org/culture/why-white-people-freak-out-when-theyre-called-out-about-race.
1A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (New York: HarperCollins, 1978), 1.
2I acknowledge that some argue that the primary point of this passage is how Christians treat one another. But I still propose that, even if that is the interpretation one takes, it’s still connected to a theological awakening in regard to cultural identity, reconciliation, and ministering to those on the margins.
3Reggie Williams, from a lecture with a group of Christian community development leaders, River City Community Church, Chicago, June 9, 2016.
4Nikki Toyama-Szeto explored this concept within her plenary talk on September 1, 2016, at the CCDA National Conference.
5Timothy Keller, “Do You See Anything?” (sermon, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York, NY, June 18, 2006).
6“Interview: Cornel West,” Frontline, 1997, www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews/west.html.
1Request membership in Be the Bridge to Racial Unity at www.facebook.com/groups/BetheBridge.
2“Wright Edelman Speaks on Children and Poverty,” Belmont University, February 5, 2009, http://news.belmont.edu/wright-edelman-speaks-on-children-and-poverty.
3Martin Saunders, “Bryan Stevenson: Four Steps to Really Change the World,” Christian Today, July 16, 2015, www.christiantoday.com/article/bryan.stevenson.four.steps.to.really.change.the.world/59211.htm.
4Lauren Rubenstein, “Honorary Degree Recipient Bryan Stevenson Delivers 2016 Commencement Speech,” Wesleyan University, May 22, 2106, www.newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2016/05/22/bryanstevenson2016.
5Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006), 48.
6To learn more about Lighthouse Covenant Church, go to lighthousempls.org.
7Dee McIntosh, “How Then Shall We Respond” (sermon, Genesis Covenant Church, Maple Grove, MN, December 13, 2015), http://genesiscov.org/sundays/sermons/media-item/103/how-then-shall-we-respond.
8Ibid.
9See River City Community Development Center, www.rcitycdc.org.
10Paul Gorski, “The Myth of the Culture of Poverty,” Educational Leadership 65, no. 7 (2008); www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/apr08/vol65/num07/The-Myth-of-the-Culture-of-Poverty.aspx.
11Sam Adler-Bell, “Why White People Freak Out When They’re Called Out About Race,” interview with Robin DiAngelo, Alternet, March 12, 2015, www.alternet.org/culture/why-white-people-freak-out-when-theyre-called-out-about-race.
12Ibid.
13“Christena Cleveland on Leadership and Sociological Imagination,” Fuller Theological Seminary, published July 7, 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1XMcAAXXXg.
14“Christena Cleveland on Embodying Mutuality,” Fuller Theological Seminary, published July 7, 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpoSuhTgjIg.
15Ibid.