In August 2015, Faith Lutheran Church addressed the issue of racism in the United States through a four-week message series entitled “Building Bridges.” You can listen to messages from that series on the Message Archive page. The bibliography below includes recommended reading from the series.
Liturgies used during the series included “A Litany for Those Who Aren’t Ready for Healing,” and “A Moment of Silence Honoring the Charleston Nine.”
The song, “They Met to Read the Bible” was sung during a commemoration of the Charleston Nine.
The video, “How Many Hours?” was also created for the message series:
Building Bridges Bibliography
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations” from The Atlantic
Sandhya Rani Jha, Pre-Post-Racial America: Spiritual Stories from the Front Lines
James Cone, God of the Oppressed
James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow
Jennifer Harvey, Dear White Christians
Cornel West, Race Matters
Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Joseph Barndt, Dismantling Racism
Gina Crosley-Corcoran, “Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person”
Isabella Wilkerson, Warmth of Other Suns
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
James Baldwin, Another Country
