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Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change (Tempered Resilience Set)

by Tod Bolsinger

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Practice the Pause: Jesus' Contemplative Practice, New Brain Science, and What It Means to Be Fully Human

by Caroline Oakes

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Jun 15, 2023 01:05PM

“When an organization confuses diversity or inclusion with reconciliation, it often shows up in an obsession with numbers. How many Black people are in the photo? Has the 20 percent quota been met, so that we can call ourselves multicultural? Does our publication have enough stories written by people of color? Are there enough people of color on the TV show? But without people of color in key positions, influencing topics of conversation, content, direction, and vision, whatever diversity is included is still essentially white - it just adds people of color like sprinkles on top. The cake is still vanilla.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

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“Fortunately, Jesus doesn't need all white people to get onboard. For me, this is freedom. Freedom to tell the truth. Freedom to create.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

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“Sometimes - oh, just once in a blue moon-I resist being receptive to God's generosity, because I'm busy with a project and trying to manipulate Him or Her into helping me with it, or with getting my toys fixed or any major discomfort to pass. But God is not a banker or a bean counter. God gives us even more, which is so subversive. God just gives, to us, to you and me. I mean, look at us! Yikes. God keeps giving, forgiving, and inviting us back.”
― Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

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“The persistence of racism in America—individual and societal—is altogether overwhelming. It doesn’t lay the best fertilizer for hope to grow.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

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“Whiteness constantly polices the expressions of Blackness allowed within its walls, attempting to accrue no more than what's necessary to affirm itself. It wants to sing the celebratory "We shall Overcome" during MLK Day but doesn't want to hear the indicting lyrics of "Strange Fruit". It wants to see a black person seated at the table but doesn't want to hear a dissenting viewpoint. It wants to pat itself on the back for helping poor Black folks through missions or urban projects but has no interest in learning from Black people's wisdom, talent, and spiritual depth. Whiteness wants enough Blackness to affirm the goodness of whiteness, the progressiveness of whiteness, the openheartedness of whiteness. Whiteness likes a trickle of Blackness, but only that which can be controlled.”
― Austin Channing Brown

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