For eighteen years, he was the director of Crossroads Ministry (Chicago), an organization committed to dismantling racism and promoting anti-racist, multicultural diversity within communities. For over forty years, Pastor Barndt has been an anti-racism trainer. He is the author of a number of books, including Becoming an Anti-Racist Church: Journeying Toward Wholeness and Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America. Pastor Barndt is a community organizer and trainer with The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond. He has served several congregations in California and Arizona.