In the context of Black History Month (February), Lauren Muratore writes in a Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg blog that perhaps the United States could learn something from South Africa about having an honest history of race relations. She recently traveled to South Africa to study conflict resolution, but what “I got was a crash course in the art of historical truth-telling.” For more of her thoughts on how we could learn from South Africa’s truthfulness about apartheid, click here.
Listening to bring healing
Editor’s note: Presented by the ELCA in partnership with Augsburg Fortress, the 2026 National Day of Racial Healing observance, “Just Us Narratives: A Night of Centering Multiracial Voices Across the…