Resources & Committee
Mosaic Team
Dr. Rebekah Baker
Associate Professor of Education
Scott Cagnet
Dean of Students, Department of Student Life
Jonathan Gin
Head Coach Women's Basketball
Brian Martin
Director of the Center for Intercultural Engagement
Dr. Stephanie Moran
Senior Advisor for Strategic Partnerships
Dr. Jason Robert Parks
Associate Professor of English
Dr. Hyeon Joon Shin
Associate Professor of Economics
Marcie Taylor
Athletic Director
Helpful External Resources
Please note that Anderson University cannot be certain to share the values of each of these other organizations, but we hope these resources can contribute in a positive way.
Multimedia
- Multi-ethnicity is Worth the Effort is an interview with Nikki Toyama-Szeto who urges Christian churches and campus groups to go beyond superficial dialogue and create space for true transformation in Christ.
- PBS Documentary: Race the Power of an Illusion
- Teaching Tolerance: A website dedicated to fighting racism on campuses of all types.
- Anti-Defamation League: A website with information about combating religious bigotry and hate.
- Not in Our Town Campaign: A website about community action steps to encourage diversity.
- Duke Divinity Schools Center for Reconciliation
- Paper Clips (DVD) is an inspiring documentary appropriate for classroom or for group discussion. In 1998, the children of Whitwell Middle School took on an inspiring project, launched out of their principal’s desire to help her students open their eyes to the diversity of the world beyond their insulated valley.
Resources for Reconciliation Book Series:
- Reconciling All Things
- Living Gently in a Violent World
- Welcoming Justice
- Friendship at the Margins
- Forgiving As We’ve Been Forgiven
- Living without Enemies
- Making Peace with the Land
Books
- Being White (IVP)
by Paula Harris and Doug Schaupp unpacks what it means to be white and how to build authentic relationships with people from other races and ethnicities. - A Transforming Vision: Multiethnic fellowship in college and in the Church
by Paul Sorrentino (Doorlight Publications) demonstrates why Christian communities should be multiethnic and provides a practical vision of how that can take place. - More Than Equals (IVP)
by Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice describes their journey of racial healing for the sake of the gospel. - “Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”
by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D. - “Can We Talk about Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation”
by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D. - “Divided By Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America”
by Michael Emerson & Christian Smith - “The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change leads to Social Change”
by Brenda Salter McNeil - “A Credible Witness: Reflections on Power, Evangelism and Race”
by Brenda Salter McNeil - “Neither Jew nor Gentile: Exploring Issues of Racial Diversity on Protestant College Campuses”
by George Yancy