David is the founding pastor of New Community Covenant Church, a multiracial congregation on the South Side of Chicago. He is also the CEO of New Community Outreach. David’s book, Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Discipleship, is available from … Continue reading July’s Special Guest Contributor Pastor David Swanson
Happy Independence Day! However, that comes with a caveat. Two Hundred and Forty-Six Years into this great experiment called America, have we come to a crossroads? One Nation Under God, Indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for All” is in reality a … Continue reading America At the Crossroads of White Nationalism and Christian Nationalism
The June Theme is The Bridge to Nowhere, or Racial Segregation: The Bridge to Nowhere. Today with all of the efforts toward building bridges of racial reconciliation, a Bridge to Nowhere manifests out of the shadows of America’s long dark history of racial … Continue reading The Bridge to Nowhere, or Racial Segregation: The Bridge to Nowhere.
“Building the Bridge Together” was the aspirational mantra for Accord1, i.e., accord1.wordpress.com, my initial foray into the online communication world. At its inception in 2011, I was trusting in existing systems, highlighting “The Church” to be the mechanism to accomplish this … Continue reading Building Bridges not Walls
We perpetuate racial abuse we when allow racial segregation to shape-shift without consequence. Continue reading Segregation Through Vocabulary Lynching
The U.S. Census tracks racial housing segregation with the “index of dissimilarity.” The index tracks segregation between two groups by viewing their distribution across neighborhoods in the same city. [1] Race, although a social construct, has major implications for life … Continue reading Racial Segregation—the Bridge to Nowhere
Desegregation was to be a bridge toward equity and equality, alongside other bridges fought for during the Civil Rights movement, but one has to wonder. When lynching, sharecropping, rape, convict-leasing, and releasing police dogs on children didn’t work to stop … Continue reading The Bridge of Racial Reconciliation
The April Anniversary issue. It has been quite a year for Three-Fifths Magazine. However, the best is yet to come. This year we will invest heavily in sounding a clarion call through truth-telling to all generations by uplifting, inspiration, and … Continue reading The April Anniversary Issue’s Theme is “I Believe Children are our future; teach them well, and let them lead the way.”
By Carl McRoy Carl McRoy [CM]: Hello Dr. Thompson. Thank you for sharing your time and talent with me on behalf of ThreeFifths.online. Our theme for March is “Times of Refreshing” and is backlit by the philosophy of “sankofa.” The … Continue reading ThreeFifths QnA with Dr. Christopher C. Thompson
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