Hi all,
Some bad news to start this week. Our founder and co-host Suzie is leaving KTF Press. She’s going to be focusing on her PhD. We are very sad to see her go, and will certainly miss both her and her contributions to everything we do here. This newsletter and our podcast would not be what they are without her, and she was the driving force behind both of our books. We wish her all the best, and we know she will crush that doctorate! You’ll hear more from us on this on Monday in an announcement we’re putting in our podcast feed (which also has exciting news about Shake the Dust season 3).
And now we turn to our highlights as we seek to leave colonized faith for the Kingdom of God.
Jonathan’s Recommendations
The United States functioned as an Apartheid state for about two hundred years, and the education system was no exception. This is a truth we must mark, remember, and resist repeating, and our public memorials are part of that process. Now Colored School No. 4 is an official landmark, set apart in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City to remind us of the progress we have made and the work yet to be done. Erik Washington, an urban planner, works to preserve sites in the city related to Antebellum Black history. He ran a tireless grassroots campaign for this landmark starting in 2018. Though integration was effective, re-segregation is the recent historical trend in US schools, as documented here. The Kingdom of God is just and equitable. We must continue to press in toward that goal!
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