Truth-Telling Together

Friends of Truth

It is strange that the friends of truth and the promoters of freedom have not risen up against the present propaganda in the schools and crushed it.  This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

~ Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)

Reflections on the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial

A Life of Truth

One of the most beautifully disturbing questions we can ask is whether a given story we tell about our lives is actually true, and whether the opinions we go over every day have any foundation or are things we repeat to ourselves simply so that we will continue to play the game. It can be quite disorienting to find that a story we have relied on is not only not true - it actually never was true.  Not now, not ever. ~ David Whyte

December 23, 2020

From the President of the Board of the Lynching Sites Project:

In his 1962 bestseller The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin wrote that “whatever white people do not know about (Black people) reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.” 

Over the past eighteen months, in several significant ways, I have continued to learn about the culture of white privilege and superiority in which I was raised and have lived all my life.  My Black sisters and brothers keep teaching me about this.

“So I went South. Because I was afraid to go South.’ Baldwin, forever the blues man, ran toward the trouble.”
~ Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, p. 48

GETTING COMFORTABLE WITH BEING UNCOMFORTABLE

A Sermon on Luke 6:27-36

Sometimes, you just have to tear up your sermon and start all over again. That's what Traci Blackmon, a black United Church of Christ pastor said to Mike Kinman, a white Episcopal priest, the day after Michael Brown was shot and died in Ferguson, Missouri - August 9, 2014.

One LSP pilgrim’s reflections on the EJI Memorial and Museum in Montgomery