Pastor David Flowers sits down with Dr. Todd Allen for a conversation about racism, anger, lament, and being a prisoner of hope in America today. We invite you to listen with an open heart and mind.
Also, check out the following resources for educating yourself on the history of racism in America, the reality of systemic racism, the church’s silence and complicity with racism, and what we can do to repent and start moving toward healing and racial reconciliation in our country.
Resources for Anti-Racism EducationBooks:
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Color of Law
Color of Compromise
Trouble I’ve Seen
Just Mercy
The New Jim Crow
Stamped from the Beginning
How to be an Anti-Racist
White Fragility
The Sun Does Shine
Rediscipling the White Church
Articles:
What It Means To Be Anti-Racist
75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race
Bryan Stevenson on the George Floyd Protests
Films & Documentaries:
Just Mercy
Selma
13th
I Am Not Your Negro
Online Videos:
Racism - Confessions of a “Christian” Nation (white pastors & leaders)
We Need To Talk About Injustice (Bryan Stevenson TED Talk)
Systemic Racism Explained (educational video)
Is There Racism in the Church? (Tony Evans interview)
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
MLK - “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” Speech
MLK – Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Sermons:
Christ & the Multi-Ethnic Kingdom (Grantham 2017 Sermon Series)
The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III)
The Marginalized Can Help Us Follow Christ (Dennis Edwards)
I Can’t Breathe (Greg Boyd sermon & panel discussion in Twin Cities)
What the Bible Says About Race, Ethnicity, and Origin (Rick Warren)
Podcasts:
Code Switch (NPR)
Seeing White
First Name Basis Podcast
Children’s Books:
The Color of Us
The Skin You Live In
Unlikely Friends
We’re Different, We’re the Same
God's Very Good
I Am Enough
Thanks to our Peace & Social Justice Commission for helping compile this list of resources. Please check with our library for the availability of books on this list or others related to the topic.
