Rachel Barrett

“Our only chance at dismantling racial injustice is being more curious about its origins than we are worried about our comfort.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“Discipleship must be stronger than cultural formation. Loyalty must be stronger than compromise. This must be stronger than that. The times called for a beautiful resistance.”
― Jon Tyson, Beautiful Resistance: The Joy of Conviction in a Culture of Compromise

“instead of being a people who have good news to share, news that could transform the world, we have become a people mired in the twenty-four-hour news cycle, fed a constant diet of hopelessness and despair. Our ability to dismiss the work of God in the church has become toxic. We are plagued by a lack of expectation and have begun to believe that this is all there is.”
― Jon Tyson, Beautiful Resistance: The Joy of Conviction in a Culture of Compromise

“The Devil. Racism. Another metaphor. Same difference.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism