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Julianne Lindemann's avatar

The appropriate response to the truth about racial relations and history in America is humility and repentance, not denial and obfuscation. May we all stock our libraries and memories with these truths, while working to educate our communities with the truth. We are building a social justice library at our church and your books, Dr Tisby, will be there.

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Jemar Tisby, PhD's avatar

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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Julianne Lindemann's avatar

Dr Tisby, the Episcopal Church has a program called Becoming Beloved Community, one of the foundational pillars and areas of commitment being truth telling. We are with you and actively pulling in the same direction and for the same purpose. Bless you!

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Jemar Tisby, PhD's avatar

Grateful to the dedication justice. And excited to teach a course for EDS this fall!

https://www.eds.edu/programs/335/white-christian-nationalism-and-the-black-churchs-prophetic-witness

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Sally Todd's avatar

Will this work for a weekly study? I facilitate a 50+ group in a christian senior living community that is looking for a way to open conversation with our conservative neighbors (with facility administration anxiety about division). We suspect there is a slice of convincible residents in this 1000+ member group and want to find them

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Benita Hopkins's avatar

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! As has been said before, "If we've ever needed the Lord before, we sure do need Him now." Thank you for lending your time, expertise, and resources. It is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use to spread the word.

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mike mcaleese's avatar

To your question:

The truth, the real history of this country not written by “ the victors “ but by the people.

The “American evangelical Christian church has been compromised, complicit and lost its testimony.

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mike mcaleese's avatar

Thank you . I appreciate your work

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Jonathan Brownson's avatar

Unlike what the White Christian Nationalists might assume, there will and can be no reviving of our nation if we insist on removing any and all record of our sins.

If Trump continues to insist that we have no sins as a country, he is deceiving himself and the truth is not in him (I John 1:8-9)

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Jeanne westerlund's avatar

Looking forward to following along on this program

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Felix Colvin's avatar

also, this is a fine program to use for Sacred Ground teaching.

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Felix Colvin's avatar

Jemar: I believe that the Heritage foundation is the latest and hopefully last gasp of white supremacy in this country. Like a wounded grizzly, it can cause a lot of pain and damage, but ultimately will die. It seems yo go way back to the Klan and 80 years before with the Order of the Cincinnati after the revolution. For white men who served as officers in the in the continental army. As the Constitution was written, it was assumed that the citizens would know to elect their "betters".. And slavery was never mentioned, or South Carolina would not have joined in according to Joe Ellis. Gen'l Washington eschewed membership when he was coming up on presidency. Very reactionary group. Can hardly wait for Ken Burns' "The Revolutionary War", coming November. I had heard that the census in California a few years ago showed that the average census identified person had a least 4 racial and or ethnic identities. WASP may well be going the way of the buggy whip. We can pray in that direction anyhow. We must bring love and a Micah 6:8/ Matthew 25 heart.

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Wow, it's super awesome to have the "Conscience of the State Campaign!" The very quote about "conscience of the state" has gripped me recently while reading Martin Luther King Jr.'s book, "Strength to Love," also from the chapter, “A Knock at Midnight."

“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.” - Martin Luther King, Jr., “A Knock at Midnight”, 1967

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Hope's avatar
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I'd like to learn about non-whitewashed U.S. history--including how churches & theologies interacted during the times of history (ie: Dr. Tisby's & the TCU's discussing the impact to support oppression with dispensationalism, rapture, etc.). I want to learn more about the Harlem church & seminary that impacted Dietrich Bonhoeffer as well as about the U.S.' Confessing Church.

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Martha Joan's avatar

I would like to learn more as well. Dr Reggie Williams wrote about the time Bonhoeffer spent in Harlem, and I have taken an online class on Bonhoeffer offered by Homebrewed Christianity. I am also interested in the role Phyllis Schlafly played in uniting the Catholic Church along with the Evangelicals to fight school desegregation . Why did criminalizing abortion suddenly become an issue with the Evangelicals at the same time that schools were ordered to desegregate? I grew up in Dolton (home town of the Pope) and was raised Methodist. Our public high school was “bussed” and there was much strife. But private catholic schools were not integrated.

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Hope's avatar

Thanks for the info. The switch of position & focus on abortion as a common motivator at the time of school desegregation is described well in chapter 2, "You will know them by their fruits" in Dr. Obery Hendricks Jr.'s book, "Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith." (SCOTUS ruling in 1971, Green V. Connally)

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Thomas Momberg's avatar

Becoming Beloved Community and its offspring, a curriculum called Sacred Ground,

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Thomas Momberg's avatar

can easily become a partner in your efforts, Dr. Tisby. This Episcopalian in Memphis is ready to join you.

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Carolyn Rice's avatar

I'm from South Carolina but live outside the USA now. Subscribing to your newsletter is important to me because I get accurate information from you that I probably would not get anywhere else. Bringing back racist monuments and whitewashing history again is so discouraging. Thank you for being a voice of truth and light in these dark times.

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