By Lynn Hur, originally published in The Mennonite and on the ReconciliAsian blog
The classroom is silent, apart from the ticking of the clock and the shifting of a chair. My English teacher looks at us pensively as my classmates awkwardly look around, waiting for someone to speak up. We had been beginning to read To Kill a Mockingbird, and the inevitable subject of race had been brought up again. My friend tells the teacher that she cried watching the assigned documentary following the Scottsboro Trials, and how she couldn’t believe the injustice of it all. Heads nod in agreement. I respond, commenting that this isn’t just something that happened, but is happening today as well. My teacher nods once again, agreeing. I try to continue, but get cut off. “Moving on,” he says. “You guys can talk more about that in a history class. We don’t have time to get too deep into the details.” Continue reading “Not Always Black & White”
Beloved Community,
A report on Exodus Lending from the 
A Facebook post from Eduardo Bonilla-silva, professor of sociology at Duke University and author of 
“There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it. But you do not stand alone. You will learn that your trouble is but part of the trouble of all the western world.” – Elrond, J.R.R Tolkein, The Fellowship of the Ring
by Talitha Fraser with Kaumatua Gregg Morris
Seventh Sunday After the Epiphany
From the Intro to Rev. William Barber’s 
By Joanna Shenk, February 5, 2017, First Mennonite Church of San Francisco
Radical Discipleship 