I can’t help noting that Holy Trinity Lutheran church in Minneapolis just contributed $250,000 to the Indian Land Tenure foundation, and the PCUSA is building an organization to help congregations engage in restorative financial action.
Finally some predominantly white religious communities engaged in concrete action!
Restorative justice as a process is increasingly being drawn on in abolitionist movements and school systems. Here’s an interesting research study that asks about possible interdependent and interactive work between gender violence and restorative justice.
This website, powered by bookshop.org, has a lovely webpage full of books in various categories by Native authors.
The Othering & Belonging Institute at UC-Berkeley just released a short video offering clear definitions of various forms of racism (institutional, systemic, structural).
Faith&Prejudice, an institution devoted to “unite the Church across races and denominations to confront and dismantle systemic racism in America” has made available its small group curriculum for free. A series of videos, handouts, and other tools.
You might not agree with abolitionism fully but the work that is being done in this movement is compelling and worthy of engagement. A great place to start is with the Bay Area Transformation Justice Collective list of resources.
Sarah Shin, who is a trainer with InterVarsity, has a book out called Beyond Colorblind. Whether or not you find her book powerful, you might find her list of additional outside resources useful.
I ran across this list today, of videos John and Hank Green curated to engage issues having to do with the Black Lives Matter movement. It’s several years old, but they are still pithy, pertinent, and profound. Worth another look!
Krista Tippet and the staff at the On Being show (a public radio show), have curated a very useful set of resources on the practice of land acknowledgements.
Here’s a useful and concise list of principles for embodying anti-racist community-engaged pedagogies.