Why this time might be different.
I spent this week with my family in Wisconsin, mostly unplugged. One afternoon we visited a small bookshop in downtown Woodstock, IL, just across the border....
What do we celebrate today?
For this July 4th weekend I’m linking to four timely articles and one video. Given the events of the past couple of months, it’s appropriate to reflect on...
Can white Jesus be saved?
This week, in my little corner of the Internet, some people were wringing their hands about white Jesus. As statues and monuments to the Confederacy are...
The (un)importance of cross-racial friendships.
Before getting to this week's essay, I've got a request. This coming week is my birthday and I'm using it as an excuse to raise money for the non-profit I...
On living counter to this racist culture assisted by the saints, including one or two white ones.
What do you imagine when you hear racial segregation? I think many of us imagine the Civil Rights Movement. Maybe we think about a time when housing...
How brave will we be?
It's Saturday evening. It's been a hell of a week. A hellish week. From within a pandemic, the country has exploded, sparked by the murders of Ahmaud Arbery,...
Covering Our Nakedness With Lament
In his little book about race, The Hidden Wound, Wendell Berry grapples with his history as a member of a southern land-owning family and how his racial...
Reframing Race
A few months ago I began planning the book launch for Rediscipling the White Church. With help from some amazing church members, we'd planned on a...
In Defense of the Multiracial Church. Sort of.
It was so good talking with Jemar Tisby, author of the essential The Color of Compromise, last week. We covered a lot of ground in an hour but I was...
Our racist impact matters more than our good intentions.
One of the perennial challenges leveled against those who point out racist acts goes something like this: "But, how can you know that person's motivations?...
Counterintuitive Solidarity
Drew G. I. Hart: White American Christians in our society must do something seemingly absurd and unnatural, yet very Christian in orientation: they must move...
How I came to write about white Christians and our dysfunctional discipleship.
We're less than a month away from the May 19th release of my book and I'd like to tell you about the circumstances that led me to this project in the first...
Whose liberation?
This week saw a weird development in our collective stay-at-home reality. The president, encouraged I assume by conservative media, has begun calling for...
Acts of God and Schemes of Men
Our family moved to the South Side of Chicago in the fall of 2009. During the previous year I'd driven Maggie to a train station twenty minutes from our...
Accepting the Unacceptable
Earlier this week I joined a conference call for the purpose of holding vigil and praying for a man who was lying, near death, in an ICU in the Chicago...
No, the virus isn't Chinese. Yes, the president is still a racist.
Well friends, this has been the longest gap between newsletters since I began this haphazard endeavor a few months ago. Distracting times, eh? I trust the...
Letting (white people) go
Earlier this week, in a multi-ethnic social media group that I'm a part of, a pastor posted a question that will resonate with some of this newsletter's...
"White Christians learned to separate their personal ethics from their social ethics."
In her important book, I Bring the Voices of My People, Dr. Chanequa Walker Barnes asks, "How could White people consider themselves Christian while engaging...
Getting practical about solidarity
InterVarsity Press rejected my first proposal of the book that would become Redisciling the White Church. But, graciously, they gave me a couple of...
Racializing Revelation's Vision of Reconciliation
Earlier this week my friend Skye Jethani tweeted the following thread. In his usual thoughtful way, Skye asks some important questions about how those of us...
