Faith and Reparations

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Top Recommendations

 

Iva Carruthers, Remembrance - Toward Righteousness and Reparations, The Ecumenical Review January 2020.

 

Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise, Zondervan Reflective, January 1, 2019.

 

HR 40 - Interfaith Letter to Congress, May 21, 2021.

 

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (Complete), 1963.

 

Faith Communities: Understanding Our History; Heeding the Call for Repair, Reparations4Slavery.com. 

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Aryeh Bernstein, The Torah Case for Reparations, Medium.com, March 29, 2018.

Faith, Justice & Reparations: Faith Perspectives, September 2021.

 

Faith, Justice & Reparations: Faith Perspectives, Faith, Justice & Reparations Workshop Planning Team, September 2021. (Video - 12 Minutes)

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Articles

 

David Crary, Jesuits in US pledge $100m in funds for racial reconciliation, Associated Press, March, 2021.

 

Rachel L. Swarns, Catholic Order Pledges $100 Million to Atone for Slave Labor and Sales, NYTimes, March 16, 2021.

 

Rev. Woolf and Rev. Nabors, Using the Bible to Debunk 10 Myths about Reparations, Sojourners' Magazine August 4, 2021

 

Tom Gjelten, White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity, NPR - All Things Considered, July 22, 2020.

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Documents

 

Faith and Facts for HR 40, National Council of Churches, 2021. 

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Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Report on Slavery and Racism in the History of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, December 12, 2018.

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Videos

 

Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise Video Study: Session 1, Zondervan Reflective, December 15, 2020.

 

Faith Based Approaches to Reparations: A Multi-faith Conversation, Lake Street Church and Second Baptist Church, June 20, 2021.

 

Books

 

Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, Simon & Schuster, July 13, 2021.

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Mark Charles and Soon-Chan Rah, Unsettling Truths: the Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery, 2019.

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James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree, Orbis Books, 2018.

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