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Racial healing and justice

September 15, 2020

Kelly Ryan: Baptism as sacramentally, essentially anti-racist

The promises made through baptism must reflect Christians’ commitment to justice and peace for all people, writes the director of the Thriving Congregations Coordination Program at Duke Divinity.

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September 9, 2020

Luke A. Powery: Brutalizing Black bodies is an assault against God

The torture inflicted on Black people dates back to enslavement and continues to this day as a denial of their humanity, writes the dean of Duke Chapel.

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August 18, 2020

‘400 years of tears’ — how three churches in the present are beginning to atone for the past

Faith communities should be careful and thoughtful as they repent of this nation’s original sin, but they must move ahead with the work.

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Robert Chao Romero: The brown church has been preaching justice for centuries

The brown church has been deconstructing and reconstructing Christianity since the colonial period, says a professor and author.

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