Todd and Roshanda Womack: Building Bridges
Critical Issues • 45m
Pastors of Outreach at Flint Central COTN, Todd and Roshanda Womack, discuss the good (but hard) work of bridge building in the church and our communities. What does reconciliation mean and look like in an era of great division in our country? What is the role of the believer in being a part of the solution?
Resources:
An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, by Barbara Brown Taylor
o https://www.amazon.com/Altar-World-Geography-Faith/dp/0061370479/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3PIJRWRA7P952&keywords=an+altar+in+the+world&qid=1565897494&s=gateway&sprefix=an+altar+in+%2Caps%2C149&sr=8-1
· The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction, by Justin Whitmel Earley
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812993543/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_aLYwDbZ1NZ7JA
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michell... https://www.amazon.com/dp/1595586431/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_wMYwDbKCJHMC3
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone https://www.amazon.com/dp/1626980055/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_-MYwDbR5H6339
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America... https://www.amazon.com/dp/1568585985/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_3NYwDb4SCZAGT
Our Racist Legacy: Will the Church Resolve the Conflict?https://www.amazon.com/dp/0940121360/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_-OYwDbD50HRDW
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America by James Allen https://www.amazon.com/dp/0944092691/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_-PYwDbAXT486M
I Am Not Your Negro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXfzFh0eBZQ
13th: https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741?source=35
When They See Us: https://www.netflix.com/title/80200549?source=35
Be the Bridge: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/558850fde4b0892e071e7960/t/5a7b4ea9e2c483ccb42b9a73/1518030506168/BetheBridge.pdf
Up Next in Critical Issues
-
Welcoming the Stranger: Understanding...
The Center for Pastoral Leadership joins Rev. Rich Shockey from Nazarenes United for Peace and Matthew Soerens from World Relief to discuss how individuals and churches can respond to the call to love the stranger. Special attention is given to how vulnerable populations are being affected during...
-
Living Faithfully in a Brand New World
The pastors of Pineville Church of the Nazarene (Charlotte NC) talk with Dr. Jesse Middendorf about how to adapt to the new world we find ourselves in the wake of COVID 19.
-
Pastors Roundtable on Race
Pastors Roundtable on Race: A Discussion with the Black Strategic Readiness Team
Here is their statement here: https://resources.nazarene.org/index.php/s/X8A8zQjoprHTJFB#pdfviewer
