by Isaac Adams
Above my desk at work sits a painting of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 80 across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama. The steel bridge, now a national landmark, was constructed in 1940. It’s named after Edmund Winston Pettus, a former Confederate...
by Beth Palmer
“What are you?” I first remember hearing that question when I was in preschool. I had not yet truly Recognized Race. My family had just moved to the Northern Virginia area, and I was introducing myself to my classmates on the first day of school. Before I was...
by Isaac Adams
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.” – Proverbs 25:11 When your friend has just fallen and broken her arm, it is time to comfort her and get her care, not to offer a lecture on the dangers of skateboarding. That should come...
by Courtney Reissig
Can we be honest with our kids about race? A number of months ago my kids were waiting for a new babysitter to come over. We actually had never met her, instead doing all of our initial correspondence via text message. As we were waiting for her to arrive one of my...
by Austin Suter
Every day on my way to seminary, I have to pass several schools. The added traffic can make an early morning commute frustrating. But the slowness gives me time to think. Posted next to the entrance of the elementary school is a sign. It says, “safe school zone.”...
by Isaac Adams
Many take Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to appreciate love, however they may define it. Yet it’s as good a time as any to appreciate the love of God had by a man born on Valentine’s Day. His name is Richard Allen. Allen was born a slave on February 14, 1760 in...
