smart growth

One plausible model of how to conduct
the difficult conversation on race

The background presented in key words: Racial charges and counter charges; a new and growing racial war; the thinking of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and black theologian Howard Thurman; race discrimination and diminishment can whip up an incredible amount of continuous stress; good education programs, by and large, can and do help relieve racial stresses; thinking outside the box when creating community programs on what still today is an often covert reality; still another chance to bring race into the open; difficult issues.

Recommendations for Action
On-the-Street Interviews

December 7, 2000 by Resources Unlimited Foundation,
member of Diversity Task Force Community Life Committee.

In different formats, this survey narrative and recommendations are contained wholly in Commitment to Diversity Task Force Final Report— March 2001

 

March 9, 2004, Christian Century magazine column
“…a loving that needs to be extended to gay Christians.”

M.E.M.O.: Ordained by baptism by Martin E. Marty 

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