My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. (Hosea 4:6).
One of the biggest lessons we have learned is this—we don’t know what we don’t know. These links will help fill in the blanks. Please understand that posting these links does not constitute endorsement either by the participants of our group or by Crossings Community Church. Our goal is simply to provide exposure to a diverse set of ideas and facilitate respectful and healing dialogue.
Racial Reconciliation
- Race & Reconciliation — Panel Discussion — Acts29.com
- Racial Reconciliation — Eric Mason — The Village Church, tvcresources.net
- Senators Lankford and Scott: Americans Should Dine With Families of Other Races — Time magazine
- Growing Up Black in America — Bridgeway Church
- The Most Segregated Hour in America: Overcoming Divisions to Pursue MLK’s Vision of Racial Harmony — Charlie Dates — thegospelcoalition.org
- The Case for Reparations — Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic
- White Fragility — Robin DiAngelo — International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- Paying Privilege Forward — Christena Cleveland — Duke Divinity School
- Legitimacy — Malcolm Gladwell at QCommons.
Local Oklahoma Issues
- OKC, Why Are We Afraid to Talk About Julius Jones? —Cecejonesdavis.com
- More on the Julius Jones Case—justiceforjulius.com
- The Last Defense —ABC Documentary on the Julius Jones case
- Tulsa Burning — 60 Minutes, CBS
- Senator James Lankford speaks on the Senate floor on the 95th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Riot (May 25, 2016)
- Additional Links — Tulsa City-County Library
Criminal Justice
- We Need To Talk About Injustice — Bryan Stephenson —Ted.com
- Innocence is Irrelevant — Emily Yoffee — The Atlantic
Bias
- Is This How Discrimination Ends? — Ta-Nehisi Coates — The Atlantic
- Starbucks Sensitivity Training — Stanley Nelson
- P&G ad on race relations generates massive views, controversy — Barrett J. Brunsman, Cincinnati Business Courier
- Why I’m a Racist — Jeff Cook — Huffington Post
The Church
- Unity in the Church of God — Breaking down the wall of partition—Church of God, Anderson
- Race and the Church —Scott Sauls, Soong-Chan Rah, Propaganda, Jenny Yang, and Mark DeYmaz — Catalyst Atlanta 2016
- The Whole in our Holiness — Ligon Duncan — t4g.org (Together for the Gospel)
- Six Practices of the Church (6 Video Series) — Qideas.org
- Bridging the Race Divide — Chuck Mingo — Qideas.org
- King and Kingdom: Racial Justice and the Uneasy Conscience of American Christianity — Russel Moore — TheGospelCoalition.org
- A Quiet Exodus: Why Black Worshipers Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches — Campbell Robertson — New York Times
- Understanding and Overcoming the Inconsistencies in White Evangelicals on Racial Issues — Matt Chandler — TheGospelCoalition.org
- Gentrification of Christianity — Sho Baraka — Qideas.org
- Race and Grace — Anthony Bradley — Dean’s Forum, Gordon Conwell Seminary
Education
- Tale of Two Schools — Heritage High, Baltimore, MD and Mclean High, Mclean, VA
- Education gap: The root of inequality — Harvard University
Culture
- QIdeas
- A Theology of Cities — Tim Keller — cru.org
- Racial Tension in America — Randall Stephenson, AT&T CEO
Literature
- Oneness Embraced — Tony Evans
- White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White — Daniel Hill
- Just Mercy — Bryan Stevenson
- The Burning, Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 — Tim Madigan
- Views from the Mountain — James Earl Massey
- Oklahoma’s Brown Decision Test Case: A Participant’s Perspective — Betty Katherine Permetter Falato and Gini Moore Campbell
- Fantastic Voyage: A Story of School Turnaround and Achievement by Overcoming Poverty and Addressing Race—Lee Roland, Oklahoma City educator, pastor, author and motivational speaker
- White Picket Fences: Turning toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege—Amy Julia Becker
