Gwen and Darryl Smith direct Cru's Oneness and Diversity Team, committed to helping shape a unified community that increasingly values ethnicity, age and gender. We discussed what their team is working on, Black History Month and much more.

Recommended resources for pursuing Oneness & Diversity:

for Gwen's talk "Brown Faces Navigating White Spaces" email gwen.smith@cru.org

books Divided By Faith by Michael O. Emerson White Awake by Daniel Hill Insider Outsider by Bryan Loritts White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Woke Church by Eric Mason Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

films The 13th (Netflix) Race: The Power of Illusion (check local library) Many Rivers to Cross (check local library) Hidden Figures (Prime Video)