Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Friday, October 12, 2007.
* Today in Scripture:
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 1602, William Chillingworth was born in Oxford, England.
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MULTIMEDIA
Archdeacon Michael S. Kendall
Archdeacon Michael S. Kendall from the Episcopal Diocese of New York speaks about the importance of housing as a right for all people.
All multimedia offerings are available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Understanding & Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America" from Augsburg Fortress, by Joseph Barndt, 290 pages, paperback, c. 2007, $17
[Source: Augsburg Fortress] More than 15 years have passed since Joe Barndt wrote his influential and widely acclaimed Dismantling Racism (1991, Augsburg Books). He has now written a replacement volume -- powerful, personal, and practical -- that reframes the whole issue for the new context of the 21st century.
With great clarity Barndt traces the history of racism, especially in white America, revealing its various personal, institutional, and cultural forms. Without demonizing anyone or any race, he offers specific, positive ways in which people in all walks, including churches, can work to bring racism to an end. He includes the newest data on continuing conditions of People of Color, including their progress relative to the minimal standards of equality in housing, income and wealth, education, and health. He discusses current dimensions of race as they appear in controversies over 9/11, New Orleans, and undocumented workers. Includes analytical charts, definitions, bibliography, and exercises for readers.
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