Here is a selection of post sand series promoting Black theology, anti-racist thought, and decolonization.
Celebrating Black Theology
“Amplifying Black Voices,” June 2020:
- Songs of Lamentation and Longing: Hearing Black Spirituals
- Dreams Deferred: Hearing the Harlem Renaissance
- Beyond ‘I Have a Dream’: Hearing Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
- The Blackness of God: Hearing Dr. James H. Cone
- Deep River Flowing Home to God: Hearing the Womanist Thought of Dr. Diana L. Hayes
- A Time for Prophetic Grief: Hearing BlackLivesMatter
Black History Month, February 2021:
- The Life Worth Living: The Prophetic Spirituality of Howard Thurman
- The Dream of God: The Sanctified Imagination of Verna J. Dozier
- “The Form of a Slave”: The Unflinching Eye of Rev. Dr. Wilda C. Gafney
Other Posts Discussing Important Work by Black Authors:
- The Promise of a New Day (engages with the work of Rev. Dr. William Barber)
- Book Review: The Very Good Gospel, by Lisa Sharon Harper
- In Our Bodies (engages with the work of Resmaa Menakem)
- By Blood and By Grace (engages with the work of Kelley Nikondeha)
Anti-Racism:
Decolonization:
Additionally, it seems to me that much of the anti-racist work that must be done in Canadian culture involves interrogating our history and cultural assumptions. Understanding that racist ideologies underpinned the growth of European colonialism and the settler culture to which I belong, I have undertaken series of posts on these topics:
- Empire and Spirit (2020)
- Setting our Stories Straight (2021)
- Pathways of Peace (2022)
Matthew Root 