VOCATION-SPECIFIC RESOURCES
Equip your vocation as a teacher, parent, or student for racial justice.
Gospel-motivated civic and community engagement.
TAKE ACTION
Congregations and pastors across the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod are proposing a plan that will help foster multiethnic church cultures in the LCMS.
Video Series
LRJ TALKS
Spanning topics from criminal justice to Lutheran education, watch challenging conversations about the intersection between race and The Church.
RACIAL JUSTICE + THE CHURCH
AMERICA + RACE
A TIME FOR BURNING is the Oscar-Nominated movie about a Lutheran church
wrestling with race relations during the height of the civil rights movement.
Organize a group of friends to watch the movie and use this guide to lead a
discussion about what the 1960s have to tell us about racial justice today.
DEVELOPED & WRITTEN BY
Janine Bolling, MPA I Sarah Salzberg, MTH I Shelly Schwalm, MFA
LUTHERAN PERSPECTIVES
Rev. Matthew Ryan González responds to the complex issues surrounding this event.
REPENTANCE AND HOPE: LCMS Educational Institutions for Training Black Church Workers
From the years that followed slavery through the Civil Rights era, Rev. Matthew E. Borrasso helps us understand our contemporary racial divides through the lens of history.
Rev. Paul Schult reflects on the storming the U.S. Capitol on January 7, 2021.
On December 21, 2020, there was a confrontation on Concordia Seminary, St. Louis' campus, between a night watchman and four teens. Pastor Benjamin Squires reflects on the events.
CARING CONNECTIONS: PERSPECTIVES ON RACIAL JUSTICE
From Lutheran Services in America
A little-known story about the impact of the Birmingham church bombing on The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.
RACE + JUSTICE ESSENTIALS is a non-Lutheran resource
that makes for a great starter-guide on everything from
systemic racism to why race is a social construct.
LUTHERAN POV
How a lifelong LCMS Lutheran became a Lutheran for racial justice.