Faith and Reparations
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Additional Resources
​Articles
Andrew Gardner, Ideas for Churches studying the need for reparations, Baptist News Global, August 5, 2020.
Connie Larkman, UCC leaders laud historic legislation on reparations, heading to House vote, United Church of Christ website, April 15, 2021.
Iva E. Carruthers, Ph.D., Faith, Law, and Reparations -- A Call Whose Time has Come, ACLU, June 19, 2019.
M Masango, Reconciliation: A way of life for the world, VERBUM ET ECCLESIA, 2005, pp.133-145.
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Adelle M. Banks, Reparations bill gains momentum as an interfaith cause, Religion News Service, July 23, 2021.
American Friends Service Committee, Quaker organizations launch initiative to uproot racism in the Religious Society of Friends, June 16, 2021.
Emily L. Hauser, The Jewish Case for Reparations – to Blacks, Forward, May 27, 2014.
Gail Strange, The Rev. Dr. Mark Lomax discusses the Church’s role in racism with a GA special committee, Prebyterian News Service, August 10, 2020.
Jeff Hitchcock, Quakers and Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow, Friends Journal, June 1, 2008.
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Joe Bradford, Does Islamic Law take a Position on Slave Reparations?, Joe Bradford Website, October 23, 2019.
John P. Slattery, A Catholic Case for Reparations, Daily Theology, July 21, 2020.
Mennonite Church USA Staff, Mennonite Church USA calls white people to engage in anti-racism work, Mennonite Church USA Website, August 4, 2020.
Miranda Bryant, Catholic order pledges $100m in reparations to descendants of enslaved people, The Guardian, March 16, 2021.
Vishvapani, Slavery: Reparations or Moving on?, The Wise Attention, October 1, 2015.
​Documents
Foreman Demands Reparations at American Baptist Meeting, Baptist Press, May 20, 1969.
Patricia Abrams and others, A Call to Faithfulness: an Invitation to a Committed Journey, Final Report of the Task Force on the Legacy of Slavery Report to the 176th Annual convention Diocese of Chicago, November 22-23, 2013.
Princeton Theological Seminary announces plans to repent for ties to slavery, Gather: Princeton Theological Seminary News Magazine, October 18, 2019.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Explanation of the Declaration of the ELCA to People of African Descent, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Website, June 27, 2019.
Presbyterian Church USA, Report of the Task Force on Reparations, Presbyterian Church USA 2010 General Assembly, April 27, 2010.
Southern Baptist Convention, Resolution On Racial Reconciliation On The 150th Anniversary Of The Southern Baptist Convention, June 1, 1995.
The Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Evanston, Bahá'í Thoughts on Reparations, August 17, 2021.
Videos
Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise Complete Video Study, Zondervan Reflective, January 13, 2021.
Websites
Exploring Reparations for First Church Cambridge 2019, First Church Congregational, Cambridge, MA, June, 2019.
James Forman Delivers Black Manifesto at Riverside Church, SNCC.
Resolution on the Study and Development of Reparations for Slavery and Systemic Racism in the U.S., Union for Reform Judaism, 2019.
Sarasota Statement, Next Church and the Presbyterian Foundation, March 14, 2017.
Baha’is of the United States, Forging a Path to Racial Justice, Baha’is of the United States Website.
United Methodist Church & Society, Support Reparations for African Americans, United Methodist Church, 2016 Book of Resolutions, #3066.
Presbyterian Church USA, Facing Racism, Presbyterian Church USA Website,
Rev. Dr. Velda R. Love, Racial Justice Introduction Letter from the Minister for Racial Justice, United Church of Christ Website.
The Reparations Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, “Why Lament?” A message from the Reparations Committee as we prepare for Diocesan Convention 2017, Episcopal Diocese of New York, November 11, 2017.
United Church of Christ, United Church of Christ Called to be an Anti-Racist Church, United Church of Christ Website.
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Books
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Michael Eric Dyson, Tears we Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, St. Martin's Press, 2017.
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Drew G.I. Hart, Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism, Herald Press, 2016.
Rev. angel Kyoda Williams and Lama Rod Owens, Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, North Atlantic Books, June 14, 2016.
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