Advocating for Migrant Workers’ Rights in Lebanon

In the spate of 12 days in October 2009, I read in the newspapers of the death – presumed suicide – of four migrant domestic workers. The workers were either Nepalese or Ethiopian. Upon the fourth death, I went online and opened a blog that I depressingly (and without...

Is It Impossible to Eliminate Racial Identity?

I’m not searching for a middle ground, an either/or, both/and solution to race. I don’t believe in compromise when it comes to the matter, for the loss is too great if race remains in our lives. No one will win; no one ever has. I find nothing of use in...

Did Land Write His Apology for Racially Charged Remarks?

Did Southern Baptist Convention agency head Richard Land write the apology statement for racially charged remarks issued under his name, or was it written by African-American Baptist clergy? When EthicsDaily.com asked Dwight McKissic, a Land critic, if Land had...

Climb Toward Reconciliation Often Slow, Painful

In the late 1960s, the Committee of Southern Churchmen, under the leadership of Will Campbell and James Holloway, conceived and produced a journal with the title Katallegete – Be Reconciled – taken from the Greek imperative in 2 Corinthians 6:20. The committee was a...

How One Person Can Build a Better Community

Every morning at 7:15, the doors of our school open wide to a line of bus riders ready to come inside. “Hello, Jaheem. Hi, Kiara. Hey, Imani. Hope you’re having a good day, Omar,” I call out as the students walk past me to the cafeteria for...