Stand Your Ground
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Unexceptional Racism
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4 min read
Our silence on racism begins with a paradox we feel compelled to ignore.
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Unearthing Whiteness
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2 min read
The greatest challenge to race relations in the US is whiteness. Not in skin color, but the belief that European cultural roots are fundamentally better. Part 1 “If Trayvon was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk?” —President Barack Obama, July 19, 2013 This is the question we refuse…
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How to summarize a time of great division
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6 min read
Kelly Brown Douglas confronts the history which not only brought us Stand Your Ground laws, but undergirds a constant struggle for continued oppression.
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Living into God’s Time
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4 min read
One Book One Diocese Lenten Study The Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis is reading the same book together for Lent. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas. We’re gathering in local communities to discuss the book or reading independently. As part of my own discipline of reading the book and preparing for discussion,…
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Believing in the Justice of God
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6 min read
In the resurrection, God reveals the power isn’t in condemnation and oppression, but in restoring life and building the blessed community.
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The Freedom of God
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5 min read
In the fourth chapter of Stand Your Ground, Douglas explores the nature of God as freedom revealed in the exodus and manifest in the gospel.