Bible and Theology on Racism

115 Results in 836ms

Display

Images Meta Data

Sorted By

illustration

The Original Sin of Racism
Author

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Keywords
- Racism
The original sin of racism in America began with a deeply flawed and demonic notion that shaped this nations development. Bad science claimed that black bodies were biologically deficient, then extrap...
Quote
Author

Alveda King
Keywords
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It’s a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want...
illustration

Coming To Terms with Institutional Racism
Author

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Keywords
- Racism
Christians in America must come to terms with how institutional racism has infected us. Few white persons in twenty-first-century America see themselves as racist. (Even fewer Asian, Latino, or Africa...
Quote
Author

Harry A. Blackmun
Keywords
- Race
- Racism
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way.
illustration

A Limited Definition of Racism
Author

George Yancey
Keywords
- Racism
Years ago I was watching a daytime talk show which focused on interracial romantic relationships. On this show, the father of a white woman did not approve of his daughter’s engagement to a black man....
illustration

Institutional Racism: The Byproduct of Historical Racism
Author

George Yancey
Keywords
The ways that social structures and institutions systematically work against the interest of people of color is called institutional racism. Institutional racism and historic racism are not unrelated ...
illustration

The Concept of “Race” a Recent Development
Keywords
- Racism
- Race
The etymology of the word race, as used with regard to people, can be traced only to the sixteenth century. Around 1500 the English word race carried the sense of a group with a common occupation; by ...
illustration

Weapon/Tool Test
Author

The Pastor's Workshop
Keywords
Split second decisions can reveal prejudices that we aren't aware of ourselves. This is particularly important in split-second decisions with life-or-death consequences, such as police officers ha...
Quote
Author

Samuel L. Jackson
Keywords
- Racism
People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one’s soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
Quote
Author

Drew Hart
Keywords
When mainstream America makes an example of Paula Deen, it both turns her into a scapegoat and also creatively claims its own innocence, because it limits the definition of racism to individual acts.
illustration

A Venomous Creature At Your Bosom
Author

Frederick Douglass
Keywords
Scripture

Matthew 25:40, Jeremiah 22:3, James 2:1, Psalm 82:3-4, Micah 6:8
Frederick Douglass describes how the evils of slavery and racism acts as a sap on the integrity of both our country and our faith in a God where there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free: Fello...
liturgy

O God of the ages, you have created
Author

Chip Hardwick
Keywords
O God of the ages, you have created each of us uniquely. We each have so much that makes us interesting and unique! Yet at times, even against our own wishes, we find ourselves falling prey to the -is...
illustration

Justice is Personal
Author

Andy Crouch
Keywords
Scripture

Matthew 25:40, Leviticus 19:15, Galatians 3:28, James 2:8-9, Amos 5:24, Micah 6:8, Isaiah 1:17
When did the topic of justice become important to you?” Gideon Strauss posed that question to two dozen people crammed into our living room one fall evening in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Some of us wer...
illustration

Volcanoes and Americans Dealing with Race
Author

Eric Mason
Keywords
“The Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii erupted on May 17, 2018, at 4:17 a.m., spewing lava more than a thousand feet in the air. Homes and other structures in the wake of the lava flow and the eruption’s rela...
illustration

Contact Theory: A Roadmap for Reconciliation
Author

Brenda Salter McNeil
Keywords
Contact Theory proposes that if diverse groups spend extended time together, their intergroup conflict and the negative effects of racism and ethnocentrism will gradually decrease and possibly even di...
liturgy

Living and present Lord (Extended)
Author

Richard Herman
Keywords
Scripture

Hebrews 12:1-2, Matthew 6:33, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, Psalm 34:17, John 14:27
Prayer of Adoration Living and present Lord: You often surprise us, coming when we least expect it; or, You simply fold back the curtain to show us You’ve been there all along to give us hope and to ...
illustration

One Kind of Folks
Author

Harper Lee
Keywords
- Racism
“If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?”
illustration

Racial Division in America
Author

Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith
Keywords
While I was sitting at a stoplight a few blocks from my [Emerson’s] home in Minneapolis, reflecting on the recent rash of drive-by shootings in the area, three African-American teens clad in the urban...
illustration

The Expediency of White Supremacism
Author

Ken Wytsma
Keywords
- Racism
- Slavery
In order to justify colonialism, an idea like white supremacy was needed. The concept that whites were chosen by God and superior to people of color, who were less intelligent, less deserving, and sav...
illustration

Realizing We are Biased
Author

Timothy Keller
Keywords
Scripture

James 2:1-9, Leviticus 19:15, Deuteronomy 1:17, Romans 2:1-11
When I went to seminary to prepare for the ministry, I met an African-American student, Elward Ellis, who befriended both my future wife, Kathy Kristy, and me. He gave us gracious but bare-knuckled me...
illustration

Science And Race
Author

Ken Wytsma
Keywords
The concept of humanity’s being divisible into different races has no scientific validity. This has always been the case, even before the advent of rapid global travel enabled the further mixing of pe...
illustration

The Theological Roots of Apartheid
Author

Brenda Salter McNeil
Keywords
Did you know that apartheid in South Africa was based in large part on theological doctrines that were formed at Stellenbosch University in the 1930s and 1940s? Isn’t that chilling? Many of the intell...
Quote
Author

Zora Neale Hurston
Keywords
There’s no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.
illustration

The Narrative of Racial Difference
Author

Bryan Stevenson
Keywords
In this excerpt by Bryan Stevenson, the civil rights attorney and author of Just Mercy, explains the origins of racial identity and difference, necessitated by a slave-based (American Christian) socie...
illustration

Curious About Oregon
Author

D. L. Mayfield
Keywords
The Latin root of curiosity means “cure,” which makes me wonder if it isn’t a way to heal some of our oldest sicknesses. Like, perhaps, the “amnesia of affluence” that theologians point out in the Bib...
illustration

Which Doll is Prettiest?
Author

Melinda Joy Mingo
Keywords
- Race
- Racism
In the 1940s, two black psychologists who were married to each other, Kenneth and Mamie Clark, were instrumental in the civil rights movement, conducting important research about the effects of race a...
illustration

Race Issues Over Coffee
Author

Melinda Joy Mingo
Keywords
- Racism
- Racial Reconciliation
One day while drinking coffee, laughing, and sharing stories with one of my best friends, who is white, an unexpected question about race came up. It just popped up out of nowhere as we were talking a...
illustration

The Cross and the Lynching Tree
Author

James Cone
Keywords
Scripture

Isaiah 61:1, Jeremiah 22:3, Micah 6:8, James 1:27, Matthew 25:35-36, Psalm 82:3-4, Isaiah 58:6-7
In the wake of slavery and the Civil War, there was so much ugliness in black life that one would have had to be blind not to see it. And nothing, absolutely nothing, was uglier than lynching in all o...
illustration

A Christianity for Those with their Backs Against the Wall
Author

Howard Thurman
Keywords
Scripture

Exodus 3:7–10, Isaiah 58:6–10 , Amos 5:21–24, Luke 4:16–21, James 2:1–7, Psalm 9:9–10
I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times that I have heard a sermon on the meaning of religion, of Christianity, to the man who stands with his back against the wall. It is urgent th...
illustration

A New Thing Has Been Made
Author

Jonathan Cornell
Keywords
Scripture

Matthew 3:1-12, Galatians 3:26-29, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 2:14-16, Colossians 3:10-11
My kids love the movie Remember the Titans . It’s the story of the integration of the TC WIlliams High School Football Team in Alexandria, Virginia, in the 1960s Civil Rights era. The white players a...

Page 1 of 4

illustration

illustration

illustration

illustration

illustration

illustration

illustration

liturgy

illustration

illustration

illustration

liturgy

illustration

illustration

illustration

illustration

illustration

illustration

illustration

illustration

illustration

illustration

illustration

illustration

illustration

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Esther

Job

Psalm

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Joel

Amos