Webinar: Creating Safe Spaces to Have Honest Conversations About Race

Here are some resources men­tioned in the Cre­at­ing Safe Spaces to Have Hon­est Con­ver­sa­tions About Race web­cast con­ver­sa­tion between Tina Dyer, Nathan Fos­ter, and Car­olyn Arends.

Books and Resources Rec­om­mend­ed by Tina Dyer

• Glenn Sin­gle­ton: Coura­geous Conversations
• Melanie Hob­son Ted Talk: Col­or blind or col­or brave
  
• Short MLK clip: A Riot is the Lan­guage of the Unheard
• Film: The Long Shadow
• Park­er Palmer: A Hid­den Whole­ness: The Jour­ney Toward an Undi­vid­ed Life — Book that explains Cir­cle of Trust.
• Res­maa Menakem: My Grandmother’s Hands
• Ibram X Ken­di: Stamped From the Beginning 
• Mar­tin Luther King: Strength to Love
• Dal­las Willard: Ren­o­va­tion of the Heart
• Robin DeAn­ge­lo: White Fragili­ty

Resources rec­om­mend­ed by Nathan Foster

• Her­bert Spencer Quote: There is a prin­ci­ple which is a bar against all infor­ma­tion, which is proof against all argu­ments and which can­not fail to keep a man in ever­last­ing igno­rance — that prin­ci­ple is con­tempt pri­or to investigation.
• Talk­ing Stick Protocol 

Oth­er Resources Men­tioned in the Webi­nar and Chat:

• Howard Thur­man: Jesus and the Disinherited
  • Dr. Wal­ter Fluk­er (head of the Howard Thur­man Papers Project) will be lead­ing us through this book in the Ren­o­varé Book Club. Click HERE to join.
• Paul Tripp Arti­cle: The Gospel, The Church, And Racial Injustice
• James McBride: The Col­or of Water
• Dr. Willie Jen­nings: The Chris­t­ian Imag­i­na­tion: The­ol­o­gy and the Ori­gins of Race
• Daniel Hill: White Awake
• Isabel Wilk­er­son: Caste: The Ori­gins of Our Discontents
• Ibram X. Ken­di: How to Be an Antiracist
• Deb­by Irv­ing: Wak­ing Up White, and Find­ing Myself in the Sto­ry of Race
• Pod­cast: The Inven­tion of Race: One-hour his­tor­i­cal doc­u­men­tary that tells the sto­ry of the con­struc­tion of race, and racism, as we live with them today
• Webi­nar Intro Song-Car­olyn Arends:​“Will­ing”

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