From Education To Action: Doubling Down in 2025

Confronting Whiteness (CW) is a movement community of people who are striving to become anti-racist in their spheres of power and influence.

Confronting Whiteness Is Shifting and Growing

Over 1000 people have completed the CW course, and over 100 people have become trained CW facilitators across 15 states. We are a wide-ranging, inclusive, and close-knit community that is always open and ready to welcome new friends on the journey.

What’s in store for Confronting Whiteness in 2025?

Anti-Racist Ally

For $10 / month, Anti-Racist Allies get:

  • Membership in the CW community

  • Subscription to the CW newsletter

  • Priority for CW course participation

  • Discounts on CW event registration

Anti-Racist Collaborator

For $20 / month, Anti-Racist Collaborators get:

  • Membership in the CW community

  • Access to CW podcasts and videos

  • Subscription to the CW newsletter

  • Priority for CW course participation

  • Discounts on CW event registration

Anti-Racist Renegade

For $30 / month, Anti-Racist Renegades get:

Complete access to 100% of all CW content -including but not limited to...

  • Membership in the CW community

  • Access to CW podcasts and videos

  • Subscription to the CW newsletter

  • Priority for CW course participation

  • Discounts on CW event registration

Meet Ben (Free Podcast)

A Spiritual Journey of Reflection, Conversation, and Transformation in Anti-Racism

CW invites people on a facilitated nine-week small group spiritual journey of reflection, conversation, and transformation where we confront the ideology of whiteness in a container of spiritual practice and by engaging with literature and films from the black intellectual tradition in America.

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Take the Course

The participant’s guide to Confronting Whiteness offers people a new posture for addressing racial issues. Spiritual practices will help participants engage writings and films by Black authors and filmmakers and develop habits that confront and undermine the power of Whiteness. While anyone can purchase the participant’s guide, the Confronting Whiteness journey was designed primarily for white people and is best experienced in community by taking the course with a group led by a trained facilitator.

  • “Boswell generously offers his readers three opportunities requisite to antiracism. They get to bask in the brilliant light gifted through Black voices, use that light to unveil Whiteness, and accept the responsibility to repair injuries - within and in communities. Readers should take full advantage of such opportunities.”

    Dr. Lucretia Berry; author, antiracist educator and curriculum specialist, founder and president of Brownicity learning community

  • “Transforming a complex social problem is an 'always and again' practice. It requires returning to the interwoven layers of complexity with humility, creativity, and nerve. What I like about Confronting Whiteness is that it incorporates a variety of holistic community experiences that offer participants the hope-filled possibility of finding their way toward individual and collective transformation.”

    Helms Jarrell, co-founder of QC Family Tree

  • “Whiteness is more than just an ideology or even racism as an Original Sin. Whiteness is also an idol--and idols separate us from God which is why Confronting Whiteness is necessary for the salvation of us White people. That's why this is a course, and not a book--'a course of spiritual formation for those of us racialized as White,' as Pastor Ben Boswell described it to me. Study carefully to find the soul of our faith set free from the idol that has captured us.”

    Jim Wallis, chair of the Center on Faith and Justice at Georgetown University

  • “Benjamin Boswell has given Christians who learned to think of themselves as White a gift: an outline to help them follow the insight of Black neighbors and the Way of Jesus toward freedom. I'm grateful for the soul work that went into shaping this resource for White Christians interested in doing the work of anti-racism.”

    Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of Revolution of Values: Reclaiming Public Faith for the Common Good

  • “We talk about [in the course] Whiteness as credit. So, it doesn’t mean that I haven’t worked hard, or other people haven’t worked hard or had their own struggles. But as a person born racialized White, I am born with a credit of certain advantages, whereas people born not racialized as White are born with a debt.”

    Lorin Bent, past participant and current Confronting Whiteness Facilitator

  • “I had no idea how deep rooted my Whiteness was. While aware for many years of how White people were treated differently from Black people, it had never become as apparent as it did over the course of these weeks.”

    Reverend Carrie Veal, past participant and current Confronting Whiteness Facilitator

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