Let us plead with the Father, Son, and Spirit to multiple our resources and give us mercy-saturated discernment to use them to advance King Jesus and his merciful Kingdom.

“[C]hrist is either neglected or honored in the person of those who need our assistance. So then, whenever we are reluctant to assist the poor, let us place before our eyes the Son of God, to whom it would be base sacrilege to refuse anything.”—John Calvin

Like the Exodus prophets, Jesus’s ministry reveals that mercy threatens unjust systems and people, and that people respond to this threat with violence.

“The shards of heartbreak cannot simply be thrown away. They have to be reworked.” -Imani Perry

It is not enough, then, to champion race-conscious justice. Christians must also champion the mandate for race-conscious mercy.

The three-fifths clause was not a compromise. It was a bipartisan effort to codify white supremacy with colorblind rhetoric.

“You do not belong in this class, Nathan. Do you understand? You are only here for racial diversity numbers.”

Student questions fill my Inbox, each one bearing a brother’s or sister’s concern. Why are we here?

As the apostle Paul teaches, singing is part of a Christian’s sanctification.

Marx sees that modern forms of capitalism required heinous racial injustices.

Informed by racist theologies, Anglo and Spanish “evangelized” and warred against Indigenous people they saw as Canaanites deserving destruction.

“You niggers get back on that bus and go back to the prison you came from!”

If only president Trump could see with Chicana/o eyes!

Given how rarely Jesus curses (not cusses) people, we should study when and why he does. 

Some of the cloud of witnesses that have gone before legally constructed race to organize racist governments.

We have conflated whiteness with Christianity so much that when challenged with whiteness, some will feel like their faith has been threatened.—Alexander Jun

Just antiracism requires resisting binary racialized thinking, and attending to the forms of oppression marshalled against each racialized group.

Christians therefore have ecclesiastical reasons to celebrate Stamped from the Beginning’s antiracist gains and lament its binary-induced shortcomings.

“Under ethnological systems of thought, races were gendered as proof of their evolutionary development above other races.” —Tommy Curry

Yes, the thorns hurt, but this pain was different. It emerged from a deeper, longer wound.