Antiracism Resources

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CORE AntiRacism Workshops – 2024

COS has embraced and led antiracism work for over 25 years. CORE (Communities Organizing for Racial Equity) is a non-profit...

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Classis East Racial Justice Team May 2023 Newsletter

In the latest newsletter from our classis Racial Justice Team, Cindy VanderKodde tells about her experiences with Story Tables during...

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February 2023 Anti-Racism Prayer Calendar

February 1-4 Wednesday 1 As America’s 2023 Black History Month theme “Black Resistance”  explores how “African Americans have resisted historic...

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From The Land to All the Days Past, All the Days to Come—The Complete Collection of Mildred D. Taylor’s Logan Family Saga is Available in the COS Library!

This historical fiction series, shaped by Mildred D. Taylor’s family stories, is a multigenerational chronicle of the Logan family’s life...

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Halfway Home: Crime, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

When he spoke at the Calvin January Series on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, sociologist, criminologist and author Reuben J. Miller...

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Acting Against Racism: A Conversation Guide

Need help figuring out how to start conversations about anti-racism? Take a look at this page from The Christian Century....

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The Hidden Cost of “White-Body Supremacy”

In her article “Bodily Trauma,” Rebecca Koerselman reflects on reading My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Path to Mending...

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Songs from Our Hymnal for Juneteenth

When Israel Was in Egypt’s Land (42) Lift Every Voice and Sing (44) All Earth is Waiting (57)  In Christ...

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Reading While Black; African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

by Esau McCaulley (InterVarsity Press, 2020) Esau McCaulley weaves a dense and gorgeous tapestry of his personal narrative, insight into the...

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COS Prayer Walk – AntiRacism Team

Prayers Written by the COS Antiracism Team for the Outdoor Prayer Walk – Summer 2021 1 Lord, make us an...

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