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Essays by 2021-22 Emerging Writers
Essays by 2020-21 Emerging Writers
Crossing Boundaries, Confronting Fears
October 6, 2020
First there is the fear, constructed by years of being told there are safe boundaries for white people. Second there is the shame of recognizing those stories are racist lies, and of realizing that invisibility is not a virtue.Read more »The Ministry of Black Fatherhood
October 1, 2020
"Almost as much as the church, the barbershop as an institution helped shape who I’ve become. That Saturday morning I witnessed my son beginning to mold his own identity."Read more »Encounter
September 24, 2020
"You are afraid to value yourself," God told me. He wondered what would happen if I did, and I told him I was afraid of going too far, that I would much rather undervalue myself just to make sure.Read more »Receiving a Kind of Grace
July 30, 2020
Catherine Hervey writes of her encounter with a Ugandan family: "They were offering belonging, a rootedness in this new place I hadn’t imagined possible."Read more »Moving to the Family Farm: Can I Work for Racial Justice When I Live on a Dirt Road?
July 27, 2020
As Duncan Hilton and his fiancee move to a rural family farm in Vermont, he considers how to maintain a practice of racial justice.Read more »
