Diverse Books for Children
Looking to teach your kids about diversity? Karen, founder of Black Kids Do Travel and blogger at themomtrotter.com, shares some books to add to your library.
Connect with others. Here's the forum for persons passionate about reducing the causes and effects of racism within the body of believers.
Looking to teach your kids about diversity? Karen, founder of Black Kids Do Travel and blogger at themomtrotter.com, shares some books to add to your library.
Here you'll find the CRC Office of Race Relations vision and mandate.
This special edition of the Antioch Podcast was created for STAND AGAINST RACISM 2020, which happened on April 24, 2020.
The denomination has made great strides and considerable progress in the process toward ethnic and cultural diversity, however the road that remains to be traveled is still quite long.
La denominación ha tenido grandes pasos y ha avanzado bastante en el proceso hacia la diversidad étnica y cultural, sin embargo el camino que queda por recorrer es bastante largo aún.
La reciente pandemia ha interrumpido la vida de la iglesia. Los pastores y los líderes de la iglesia rápidamente aprendieron a usar plataformas sociales como Facebook y Zoom. Cuando la pandemia termine, ¿volverán ellos a utilizar lo que funcionaba en el pasado? ¿Deberían hacerlo? Algunos no.
When the pandemic is over, will leaders return to what has worked in the past? Should they?
Racism may not be the original sin but it is pretty close to the root. In this article, Rev Harold Caicedo sees the Gospel as an anti-racism response that tears down the dividing walls of racism.
Cuando la denominación abre las puertas a los grupos étnicos (minoritarios), no solamente abre las puertas a las personas, abre las puertas a sus problemas. Entonces ya no se puede decir: son tus problemas.
Unless pastors and church leaders embrace the vision, addressing any racial injustice in the church will be very foreign or even taboo.
To tell the truth, I'm not "woke." Honestly, I don't even know what that means half the time. What I do know is that I grapple with my own white identity and what it means to be a racist when I don't intend to be.
In 2010, I asked the following question: What is your church doing for racial reconciliation? Now we are in the year 2020. Is the question still relevant?
A team of facilitators met this past fall for a Race Relations learning retreat in Sierra Madre, CA. They prayed together, grew together, and explored the history of Native Americans in California.
Use this litany (available in English and Spanish) to celebrate the multicultural church of Christ during All Nations Heritage Week, taking place September 27 to October 3 this year.
More than 900 praying, swaying, and singing people took part in the 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Check out the CRC News story on the event!
What made them say "yes" to facilitating the workshop? A sense of calling, a sense of justice, and a sense of understanding what racial oppression is; and the desire to do something.
Synod 2019 declared kinism a heresy, but many in our denomination may still be left wondering: What exactly is kinism? Where did it come from? Is this something that our churches are actually dealing with?
A few days ago my daughter sent me an essay written by Kyle Korver, Utah Jazz player and son of an RCA pastor. As I read it, I realized Korver was not asking me to engage in a debate with him. I realized he was inviting readers to glimpse his own heart.
Kenosis Community Groups are gatherings facilitated by white people for white people so that concepts and topics related to race and racism in Canada can be explored in an environment that promotes freedom to explore without fear of offense.
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This workshop will help you to learn and understand the beginning of the racial division between white and non-white peoples.
Join the Offices of Race Relations and Social Justice at Madison Church to celebrate the work and words of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and be encouraged to continue in our work for Gospel-founded racial justice.
The communal Advent practices of remembering, celebrating, mourning, and anticipating prompt me to consider how those themes have showed up over the last year in the work of racial justice and equity in Canada.
Apparently both this year and last, my niece has been teased by her classmates because of her beautiful skin tone.