Black Lives Matter Bible Study
July 24, 3:30:
Session #1: Anti-Racism: Why “tolerance" and “inclusion” aren’t enough.
During our country’s reckoning with racism this summer, many terms and ideas have emerged that may have been unfamiliar.
In this first of three Bible Studies on ideas emerging from the Movement for Black Lives, Rev. Nate will walk us through passages from the following resources related to anti-racism. We'll put these readings in conversation with Scripture from Jeremiah and Luke.
Click on the titles below to read the resources ahead of time. And please join us, whether or not you’re able to do any reading ahead of time!
Singh offers six specific responsibilities white people can take, in the ongoing process of becoming an antiracist.
-Excerpt from “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, 1963 (2 pages).
King writes this letter specifically to white clergy and “white moderates,” who are questioning the intensity of Black protests and uprisings. “So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be,” he challenges us.
-Excerpt from “Citizen,” Claudia Rankine, 2014 (3 pages).
Rankine weaves together stories of “micro-aggressions” gathered from friends and her personal life. This is moving, heartbreaking writing.
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