The Upstate New York Synod Anti-Racism Task Force Overview, Information and Resource list can be found here:
https://upstatenysynod.org/racial-justice-1
https://upstatenysynod.org/racial-justice-1
From the Upstate New York Synod Website:
On Saturday, September 19, 2020 Synod Council approved the Upstate New York Synod Resolution on Racism put forth by the UNYS Racial Justice Task Force. We ask that you take the time to read through the resolution in its entirety so that you are familiar with its details as we continue our hard work in this arena.
The resolution can be found here:
On Saturday, September 19, 2020 Synod Council approved the Upstate New York Synod Resolution on Racism put forth by the UNYS Racial Justice Task Force. We ask that you take the time to read through the resolution in its entirety so that you are familiar with its details as we continue our hard work in this arena.
The resolution can be found here:
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We have assembled a list of resources that you may find helpful:
Books About Race
A Different Mirror Kindle Edition - Ronald Takaki
A People’s History of the United States - Howard Zinn
America’s Original Sin – Jim Wallis
Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. – Clayborne Carson
Autobiography of Malcom X - Alex Haley
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – Ernest Gaines
Be the Bridge - Latasha Morrison
Being White: Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World – Paul Harris, Doug Schaupp
Before the Mayflower – Leron Bennet
Between the World and Me – TaNehisi Coates
Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy - Darryl Pinckney
Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
Christian slaves, Muslim masters - Robert C. Davis
Dear Church – Lenny Duncan
Dear White Christians, For Those still Longing for Racial Reconciliation – Jennifer Harvey
Dismantling Racism: The Continuing Challenge to White America – Joseph Barndt
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland - Jonathan Metzl
Enter the River: Healing Steps from White Privilege Toward Racial Reconciliation – Jody Miller
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City – Matthew Desmond
God’s Politics – Jim Wallis
Good White Racist? Confronting our Role in Racial Injustice - Kerry Connelly
How to Be an Anti-Racist -
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whites – Channing Brown
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse - Matthiessen
Jay-Z: Made in America - Michael Eric Dyson
Jesus and the Disinherited - Howard Thurman
Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
Killers of the Dream – Lillian Smith
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong - James W. Loewen
Moral Leadership in a Divided World: 14 People who dared to Change our World - David Gushee and Colin Holtz
No Mercy, No Justice: The Dominant Narrative of America versus The Counter Narrative of Jesus’ Parables - Brooks Harrington
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond - Marc Lamont Hill
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope - Deray McKesson
Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as a Prophet for our Time - Catherine Meeks and Nibs Stroupe
Race in Post Obama America, The Church Responds- David Maxwell, Editor
Rethinking Incarceration – Dominique Gilliard
Same Kind of Different as Me – Ron Hall, Denver Moore
See No Stranger: A Memoir And Manifesto of Revolutionary Love - Valerie Kaur
Small Great Things – Jody Picoult
Stamped From the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery - Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
The ABC’s of Diversity - Helping Kids (and Ourselves!) Embrace our Differences - Carolyn Helsel and Y. Joy Harris-Smith
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America - Anders Walker
The Bush was Blazing but Not Consumed - Eric Law
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein
The Church Enslaved: A Spirituality for Racial Reconciliation – Tony Campolo and Michael Battle
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother – James McBride
The Condemnation of Blackness - Khalil Muhammad
The Corner – David Simon
The Cross and the Lynching Tree – James Cone
The Fire Next Time - Baldwin
The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change – Brenda Salter McNeil, Rick Richardson
The Inner Work of Racial Justice - Rhonda Magee
The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
The Other Wes Moore – Wes Moore
The Short & Tragic Life of Robert Peace – Jeff Hobbs
The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuboisThe Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear - Rev. Dr. William Barber II
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
The Watsons Go To Birmingham – Christopher Paul Curtis
The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America’s First Black Sports Hero - Michael Kranish
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life – Karen Armstrong
Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northrup
Understanding White Privilege – Frances Kendal
United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race - Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Michael O. Emerson, et.al.
Waking up White – Debby IrvingWhite Trash Nancy Isenberg
When I was a Slave – Norman R. Yetman, Editor
White Awake - Daniel Hill
White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race – Beverly Daniel Tatum
Historical Fiction:
The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
African History
Bantu Africa: 3500 BCE to Present (African World Histories) 1st Ed. by Catherine Cymone Foursey, Rhonda M. Gonzales, Christine Saidi
Essay: Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture
The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa (Paperback, 10/15/1995)
Names from African History suggested to look for in research:
Mansa Musa (Mali Empire)
Emperor Menelik II (Ethiopia)
Books About Race
A Different Mirror Kindle Edition - Ronald Takaki
A People’s History of the United States - Howard Zinn
America’s Original Sin – Jim Wallis
Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. – Clayborne Carson
Autobiography of Malcom X - Alex Haley
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – Ernest Gaines
Be the Bridge - Latasha Morrison
Being White: Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World – Paul Harris, Doug Schaupp
Before the Mayflower – Leron Bennet
Between the World and Me – TaNehisi Coates
Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy - Darryl Pinckney
Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
Christian slaves, Muslim masters - Robert C. Davis
Dear Church – Lenny Duncan
Dear White Christians, For Those still Longing for Racial Reconciliation – Jennifer Harvey
Dismantling Racism: The Continuing Challenge to White America – Joseph Barndt
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland - Jonathan Metzl
Enter the River: Healing Steps from White Privilege Toward Racial Reconciliation – Jody Miller
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City – Matthew Desmond
God’s Politics – Jim Wallis
Good White Racist? Confronting our Role in Racial Injustice - Kerry Connelly
How to Be an Anti-Racist -
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whites – Channing Brown
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse - Matthiessen
Jay-Z: Made in America - Michael Eric Dyson
Jesus and the Disinherited - Howard Thurman
Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
Killers of the Dream – Lillian Smith
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong - James W. Loewen
Moral Leadership in a Divided World: 14 People who dared to Change our World - David Gushee and Colin Holtz
No Mercy, No Justice: The Dominant Narrative of America versus The Counter Narrative of Jesus’ Parables - Brooks Harrington
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond - Marc Lamont Hill
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope - Deray McKesson
Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as a Prophet for our Time - Catherine Meeks and Nibs Stroupe
Race in Post Obama America, The Church Responds- David Maxwell, Editor
Rethinking Incarceration – Dominique Gilliard
Same Kind of Different as Me – Ron Hall, Denver Moore
See No Stranger: A Memoir And Manifesto of Revolutionary Love - Valerie Kaur
Small Great Things – Jody Picoult
Stamped From the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery - Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
The ABC’s of Diversity - Helping Kids (and Ourselves!) Embrace our Differences - Carolyn Helsel and Y. Joy Harris-Smith
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America - Anders Walker
The Bush was Blazing but Not Consumed - Eric Law
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein
The Church Enslaved: A Spirituality for Racial Reconciliation – Tony Campolo and Michael Battle
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother – James McBride
The Condemnation of Blackness - Khalil Muhammad
The Corner – David Simon
The Cross and the Lynching Tree – James Cone
The Fire Next Time - Baldwin
The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change – Brenda Salter McNeil, Rick Richardson
The Inner Work of Racial Justice - Rhonda Magee
The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
The Other Wes Moore – Wes Moore
The Short & Tragic Life of Robert Peace – Jeff Hobbs
The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuboisThe Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear - Rev. Dr. William Barber II
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
The Watsons Go To Birmingham – Christopher Paul Curtis
The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America’s First Black Sports Hero - Michael Kranish
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life – Karen Armstrong
Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northrup
Understanding White Privilege – Frances Kendal
United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race - Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Michael O. Emerson, et.al.
Waking up White – Debby IrvingWhite Trash Nancy Isenberg
When I was a Slave – Norman R. Yetman, Editor
White Awake - Daniel Hill
White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race – Beverly Daniel Tatum
Historical Fiction:
The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
African History
Bantu Africa: 3500 BCE to Present (African World Histories) 1st Ed. by Catherine Cymone Foursey, Rhonda M. Gonzales, Christine Saidi
Essay: Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture
The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa (Paperback, 10/15/1995)
Names from African History suggested to look for in research:
Mansa Musa (Mali Empire)
Emperor Menelik II (Ethiopia)
Documentaries/Interviews:
Hillbilly
Hale County, This Morning This Evening
Interview: “Laverne Cox Defends Democracy” on Alicia Garza’s (cofounder of BLM) podcast series “Lady Don’t Take No”
LA 92
Race, the Power of an Illusion
Rest In Power: The Treyvon Martin Story
Say Her Name: The Life And Death Of Sandra Bland
13th
The Central Park Five
The Death And Life Of Marsha P. Johnson
The House I Live In
The Road to Brown
Movies:
Amazing Grace - 2007 (Abolishing the Slave Trade in England)
Amastad - 1997 | MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
Do The Right ThingSelma
Get Out
Harriet
I Am Not Your Negro
If Beale Street Could Talk
Just Mercy
Loving
12 Years A Slave
The Hate You Give
Quest
Rat Film
Podcasts:
When Denouncing Racism Isn’t Enough
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/with-friends-like-these/id1207507389?i=1000477681537
Ted Talks:
Bryan Stevenson
Michelle Alexander
Baratunde Thurston
Articles/Misc:
ABC Cold Case of murder of young black man solved
https://abcnews.go.com/US/racially-motivated-cold-case-murder-young-black-man/story?id=71702999
5 Signs you might not be an anti-racist
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danabrownlee/2020/07/20/5-disturbing-signs-that-you-might-not-be-an-antiracist-after-all/?fbclid=IwAR3LghmsKjcNTr2O74owf-JhGLEGVU0e3_O9TSoct9wzSkU_9OJzh0b_djA#159bf37a13aa
Article/author to follow: “America This is Your Chance” by Michelle Alexander
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/opinion/george-floyd-protests-race.html
Historian to follow: Heather Cox Richardson https://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1595/heather-cox-richardson/
Home Team History - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC12lU5ymIvSpgl8KntDQUQA
7 Things You did not Know were connected to slavery
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/us/us-slavery-connections-trnd/index.html
Syracuse 15th Ward News Story
https://www.urbancny.com/wsyr-tv9-takes-a-look-back-with-hidden-history-the-end-of-syracuses-15th-ward/?fbclid=IwAR3cuj64ZFEh3xpjqa27cLUmo29jg0xAeXDHNosDYeN2U7-gS8LnVEmB0o4
White racial justice activist no one has heard of: Anne Braden https://annbradenbooks.com/about-me/
Womanist Theologians
The Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas is an Episcopal priest and author of Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God. She is the Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and the Bill and Judith Moyers Chair in Theology at Union. She also serves as the Canon Theologian at the Washington National Cathedral and Theologian in Residence at Trinity Church Wall Street. She is a leader in the field of womanist theology, racial reconciliation, and sexuality and the black church.
Posted in Sojourners Magazine:
+“A Christian Call for Reparations” by Kelly Brown Douglas 06-05-2020
+“Trading Lives for Labor” Kelly Brown Douglas 05-29-2020
+“The Stories That Matter from a Black Mother to Her Son” by Kelly Brown Douglas 03-20-2017
Katie Geneva Cannon (1950–2018) was an American Christian theologian and ethicist associated with womanist theology and black theology. She was the first African American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (USA), which occurred in 1974.
+Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective 1988
+Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community. Continuum 1998
+Black Womanist Ethics, Oxford University Press 1988
Voices from the Lutheran Elders
The Rev. Dr. Albert (Pete) Pero, Jr. (deceased), Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
+ With Ambrose Moyo, Pero is co-editor of the anthology "Theology and the Black Experience: The Lutheran Heritage Interpreted by African and African-American Theologians," which includes his two essays, "On Being Black, Lutheran, and American in a Racist Society," and "Worship and Theology in the Black Context."
+ The Nature and Function of God as Interpreted by the Church in a World Divided by Poverty and Plenty” Currents in Theology and Mission Vol 40 no 1 (February, 2013) 24-32
+ “From Culture to Cosmos: God’s Human Community Remains a Single Unit.” Currents in Theology and Mission 28/3-4 (2001) 307-315.
+ "The Issue of Power/Authority in the Global Church of the 21st Century.” Currents in Theology and Mission 24/3 (1997) 245-251.
The Rev. Dr. Richard J. Perry Jr., professor of church and society and director of the urban ministry program (emeritus) at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
+ "African American Lutheran Ethical Action," to the book "The Promise of Lutheran Ethics" (Fortress Press 1998).
+ “Martin Luther King Jr. and the Christian Life” The Journal of Lutheran Ethics Volume 10, No. 4
(April 2010)
+ Review of “Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited: Engagement with an American Original” edited by Daniel F. Rice in the Journal of Lutheran Ethics (May-June 2011) 123 – 124.
+ “Niebuhr and Politics” The Journal of Lutheran Ethics Vol. 11, No. 3 (May/June, 2011)
+ Review of Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church: Mandate, Commitments and Practices of a Diverse Congregation by Mark DeYamaz in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, Vol. 63, #4 (October, 2009) p. 433-434
+ “Genetics and Social Location: How do Things Look from Here?” “Genetics & Faith: Power, Choice & Relationship (Responses for input on the ELCA Social Statement of 2010)
+ “From the Sanctuary to the Street: The Vocation of a Theologian,” Currents in Theology and Mission, Vol. 35, No. 5 (October 2008): 349-353
+ “Broadening the Moral Conversation (A Response to Margaret McLean).” The University of Toledo Law Review 32/3 (Spring 2001) 351-354.
+ "Elements of a Social Ethic of Liberation: An Interpretation of the Hefner Legacy.” Currents in Theology and Mission 28/3-4 (2001) 378-384.
+ "Broadening the Church’s Conversation.” In Human Cloning: Papers From a Church Consultation, ed. Roger Willer. Department for Studies of the Division for Church in Society, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2000.
+ "African American Lutheran Ethical Action: The Will to Build.” In The Promise of Lutheran Ethics, ed. Karen Bloomquist and John Stumme. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing, 1998.
+ "Which Way Shall We Go?’ The Ethical Dilemma of Africa American Lutheranism.” Currents in Theology and Mission 24/3 (1997) 252-258.
+ James Cone (1938 – 2018)
James Hal Cone was an American theologian, best known for his advocacy of black theology and black liberation theology. His 1969 book Black Theology and Black Power provided a new way to comprehensively define the distinctiveness of theology in the black church.
+ Black Theology and Black Power (1969)
+ A Black Theology of Liberation (1970
+ The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation
+ God of the Oppressed (1975)
+ My Soul Looks Back (1982) *
+ Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare? (1992,
+ Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation, 1968-1998 (1998)
+ The Cross and the Lynching Tree (2011)
Said I wasn't goanna tell nobody: the making of a Black theologian (2018)
*In Dr. Cone’s My Soul Looks Back he shares that his under-graduate and seminary professors told him in no uncertain terms -- that he did not possess the analytical skills to write academic papers. (Somebody say, ‘institutional racism’! – Carroll)
Hillbilly
Hale County, This Morning This Evening
Interview: “Laverne Cox Defends Democracy” on Alicia Garza’s (cofounder of BLM) podcast series “Lady Don’t Take No”
LA 92
Race, the Power of an Illusion
Rest In Power: The Treyvon Martin Story
Say Her Name: The Life And Death Of Sandra Bland
13th
The Central Park Five
The Death And Life Of Marsha P. Johnson
The House I Live In
The Road to Brown
Movies:
Amazing Grace - 2007 (Abolishing the Slave Trade in England)
Amastad - 1997 | MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
Do The Right ThingSelma
Get Out
Harriet
I Am Not Your Negro
If Beale Street Could Talk
Just Mercy
Loving
12 Years A Slave
The Hate You Give
Quest
Rat Film
Podcasts:
When Denouncing Racism Isn’t Enough
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/with-friends-like-these/id1207507389?i=1000477681537
Ted Talks:
Bryan Stevenson
Michelle Alexander
Baratunde Thurston
Articles/Misc:
ABC Cold Case of murder of young black man solved
https://abcnews.go.com/US/racially-motivated-cold-case-murder-young-black-man/story?id=71702999
5 Signs you might not be an anti-racist
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danabrownlee/2020/07/20/5-disturbing-signs-that-you-might-not-be-an-antiracist-after-all/?fbclid=IwAR3LghmsKjcNTr2O74owf-JhGLEGVU0e3_O9TSoct9wzSkU_9OJzh0b_djA#159bf37a13aa
Article/author to follow: “America This is Your Chance” by Michelle Alexander
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/opinion/george-floyd-protests-race.html
Historian to follow: Heather Cox Richardson https://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1595/heather-cox-richardson/
Home Team History - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC12lU5ymIvSpgl8KntDQUQA
7 Things You did not Know were connected to slavery
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/us/us-slavery-connections-trnd/index.html
Syracuse 15th Ward News Story
https://www.urbancny.com/wsyr-tv9-takes-a-look-back-with-hidden-history-the-end-of-syracuses-15th-ward/?fbclid=IwAR3cuj64ZFEh3xpjqa27cLUmo29jg0xAeXDHNosDYeN2U7-gS8LnVEmB0o4
White racial justice activist no one has heard of: Anne Braden https://annbradenbooks.com/about-me/
Womanist Theologians
The Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas is an Episcopal priest and author of Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God. She is the Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and the Bill and Judith Moyers Chair in Theology at Union. She also serves as the Canon Theologian at the Washington National Cathedral and Theologian in Residence at Trinity Church Wall Street. She is a leader in the field of womanist theology, racial reconciliation, and sexuality and the black church.
Posted in Sojourners Magazine:
+“A Christian Call for Reparations” by Kelly Brown Douglas 06-05-2020
+“Trading Lives for Labor” Kelly Brown Douglas 05-29-2020
+“The Stories That Matter from a Black Mother to Her Son” by Kelly Brown Douglas 03-20-2017
Katie Geneva Cannon (1950–2018) was an American Christian theologian and ethicist associated with womanist theology and black theology. She was the first African American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (USA), which occurred in 1974.
+Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective 1988
+Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community. Continuum 1998
+Black Womanist Ethics, Oxford University Press 1988
Voices from the Lutheran Elders
The Rev. Dr. Albert (Pete) Pero, Jr. (deceased), Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
+ With Ambrose Moyo, Pero is co-editor of the anthology "Theology and the Black Experience: The Lutheran Heritage Interpreted by African and African-American Theologians," which includes his two essays, "On Being Black, Lutheran, and American in a Racist Society," and "Worship and Theology in the Black Context."
+ The Nature and Function of God as Interpreted by the Church in a World Divided by Poverty and Plenty” Currents in Theology and Mission Vol 40 no 1 (February, 2013) 24-32
+ “From Culture to Cosmos: God’s Human Community Remains a Single Unit.” Currents in Theology and Mission 28/3-4 (2001) 307-315.
+ "The Issue of Power/Authority in the Global Church of the 21st Century.” Currents in Theology and Mission 24/3 (1997) 245-251.
The Rev. Dr. Richard J. Perry Jr., professor of church and society and director of the urban ministry program (emeritus) at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
+ "African American Lutheran Ethical Action," to the book "The Promise of Lutheran Ethics" (Fortress Press 1998).
+ “Martin Luther King Jr. and the Christian Life” The Journal of Lutheran Ethics Volume 10, No. 4
(April 2010)
+ Review of “Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited: Engagement with an American Original” edited by Daniel F. Rice in the Journal of Lutheran Ethics (May-June 2011) 123 – 124.
+ “Niebuhr and Politics” The Journal of Lutheran Ethics Vol. 11, No. 3 (May/June, 2011)
+ Review of Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church: Mandate, Commitments and Practices of a Diverse Congregation by Mark DeYamaz in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, Vol. 63, #4 (October, 2009) p. 433-434
+ “Genetics and Social Location: How do Things Look from Here?” “Genetics & Faith: Power, Choice & Relationship (Responses for input on the ELCA Social Statement of 2010)
+ “From the Sanctuary to the Street: The Vocation of a Theologian,” Currents in Theology and Mission, Vol. 35, No. 5 (October 2008): 349-353
+ “Broadening the Moral Conversation (A Response to Margaret McLean).” The University of Toledo Law Review 32/3 (Spring 2001) 351-354.
+ "Elements of a Social Ethic of Liberation: An Interpretation of the Hefner Legacy.” Currents in Theology and Mission 28/3-4 (2001) 378-384.
+ "Broadening the Church’s Conversation.” In Human Cloning: Papers From a Church Consultation, ed. Roger Willer. Department for Studies of the Division for Church in Society, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2000.
+ "African American Lutheran Ethical Action: The Will to Build.” In The Promise of Lutheran Ethics, ed. Karen Bloomquist and John Stumme. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing, 1998.
+ "Which Way Shall We Go?’ The Ethical Dilemma of Africa American Lutheranism.” Currents in Theology and Mission 24/3 (1997) 252-258.
+ James Cone (1938 – 2018)
James Hal Cone was an American theologian, best known for his advocacy of black theology and black liberation theology. His 1969 book Black Theology and Black Power provided a new way to comprehensively define the distinctiveness of theology in the black church.
+ Black Theology and Black Power (1969)
+ A Black Theology of Liberation (1970
+ The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation
+ God of the Oppressed (1975)
+ My Soul Looks Back (1982) *
+ Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare? (1992,
+ Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation, 1968-1998 (1998)
+ The Cross and the Lynching Tree (2011)
Said I wasn't goanna tell nobody: the making of a Black theologian (2018)
*In Dr. Cone’s My Soul Looks Back he shares that his under-graduate and seminary professors told him in no uncertain terms -- that he did not possess the analytical skills to write academic papers. (Somebody say, ‘institutional racism’! – Carroll)
Resources from the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America):
Social Statement on Race, Ethnicity and Culture - 1993
Many Voices, Tell the story, Create the Vision: Build Our Future - ELCA African Descent Strategic Plan
ELCA African Descent Strategy Implementation Plan 2020/2025
Declaration of the ELCA to People of African Descent
African Descent Lutheran Association - Website
Social Statement on Race, Ethnicity and Culture - 1993
Many Voices, Tell the story, Create the Vision: Build Our Future - ELCA African Descent Strategic Plan
ELCA African Descent Strategy Implementation Plan 2020/2025
Declaration of the ELCA to People of African Descent
African Descent Lutheran Association - Website