Social Concerns
The church is not yet a ‘great multitude’
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Our personal stories have the power to build awareness and understanding, to bridge divides and bring healing.
UM News is inviting people to share their own personal stories about encounters with racism, as well as hopes and ideas for combating it. This forum is designed to foster dialogue and identify solutions to the problem.
Racism affects every person, regardless of background. It underlies issues such as poverty, hunger, discrimination, mass incarceration, and disparities in education, health care, income, job status and access to resources.
The United Methodist Church condemns racism as a sin and believes all people are of sacred worth. “[A]ll peoples and individuals constitute one human family, rich in diversity,” the church states in its Social Principles.
Commentaries can be up to 900 words long and should be written from a first-person, personal point of view.
Even after the passage of civil rights laws, a white teen found change slow to come in the rural South of the 1970s.
Read commentaryAn African American woman recalls instances of racism while she and her husband were searching for housing in the 1950s and 1960s.
Read commentaryA traumatic childhood memory, repressed for 40 years, came back to force United Methodist deacon Constance Hastings to confront racism in her upbringing.
Read commentaryThe church is not yet a ‘great multitude’
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‘That's just the way it is.’
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'When did we begin profiling in our neighborhood?'
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Confronting racism as a lifelong journey
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COVID-19 shines spotlight on racial health care disparities
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My soul cries for a peaceable family of God
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Black father prepares sons for racial injustice
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Celebrating Asian/Pacific American heritage
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Chance meeting leads to understanding about reparations
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Police reform must involve reconciliation
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Growing up with institutional racism
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Black clergywomen’s stories offer insights into racism
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