The Line Between Innocence and Privilege
The reality is that our actions and our intentions don’t matter when the result is the harm inflicted upon another person.
stephen matlock
stephen matlock, a part-time author and gardener in the Pacific Northwest often overwhelmed by both words and weeds, has been writing about his journey into inclusion and diversity for a dozen years.
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When Words Fail Us
Can you imagine the chaos and division if words took on new and different meanings w/out warning? It's already happened
Distant Strangers
It’s time for us to use our lives to bring us closer to equality, to inclusion, to acceptance, to diversity—and to love
Can This Racial Division Be Healed?
White Christians in America have chained themselves into a way of thinking and behaving that is opposed to the grace and example of Jesus
We Must See People in Color
Only when we white people can get to the place where we value Black lives equally as we do the lives of others can we say that Black lives matter
“Fieldnotes on Allyship: Achieving Equality Together”
Our Human Family’s new book “Fieldnotes on Allyship: Achieving Equality Together” is an informal and informative guide to becoming an effective ally.
To My Evangelical Faith Family
If the Jesus whom we follow can love the accepted and the rejected of society, then we can, with his grace and power, also love our neighbors as ourselves.
Making the Past the Past
For white American Christians, racism is an extraordinarily stubborn sin, resistant to being identified, named as wrong, being called out as wrong, and being expunged from the life of the holy believer.
My Journey into Blackness
As a white man, my inquiry into Blackness has helped me to connect with Black people on a much deeper level.