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Baal In America
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John M. Perkins
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I know most Americans today do not worship Baal, but when I look at the church in America, I fear that we have our own Baals that demand our worship. I see so many people bowing down before prosperity...
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O God of the ages, you have created
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Chip Hardwick
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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...
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Nicholas Wolterstorff
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The lower classes of society are “not only disproportionately vulnerable to injustice, but usually disproportionately actual victims of injustice. Injustice is not equally distributed. One has to deci...
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Institutional Racism: The Byproduct of Historical Racism
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George Yancey
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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 ...
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Experiencing Racism at a Bible College
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Bryan C. Loritts
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Genesis 1:26-27, Numbers 12:1-10, Isaiah 56:6-7 , Luke 10:25-37, Galatians 3:28, Psalm 34:18
While I was born much too late to be the legal property of a person in America, I have been the recipient of racism. When a classmate called me a racial epithet in my first year of college, I was deva...
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Coming To Terms with Institutional Racism
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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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- 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...
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The Devastation of Residential Segregation
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George Yancey
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- Segregation
- Inequality
More people of color than whites live in the city of Dallas and in the city of Fort Worth. But they are more likely to live in poorer inner-city areas while whites live in the more affluent suburbs. D...
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Career Options for a Latino Student
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Samuel Rodriguez
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- Racism
- Prejudice
I’ll never forget sitting in the guidance counselor’s office my freshman year in high school in the Lehigh Valley area between Philadelphia and Allentown, where I grew up. The purpose of our meeting w...
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Which Doll is Prettiest?
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Melinda Joy Mingo
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- 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...
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The Most Damaging Charge
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Richard J. Mouw
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Leviticus 19:15, Proverbs 18:17, 1 Kings 3:9, Matthew 7:1–5, John 7:24, Psalm 141:5
At a recent gathering of seminary professors, one teacher reported that at his school the most damaging charge one student can lodge against another is that the person is being “judgmental.” He found ...
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John Piper
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- Race
The majority culture (which for a little while longer is still white) has the luxury of being oblivious to race (which would change in an instant, if we moved to Nigeria). But for minority peoples, ra...
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The Handicapped (White) Church
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Warren W. Wiersbe
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- Race
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Luke 4:14
We are handicapped in the white church. If I preached Jesus’ first sermon (Luke 4:14–30) and gave it the social emphasis that He gave, our church has no vehicle for doing anything about the problem. P...
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Angela Carter
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
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Alveda King
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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...
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Realizing We are Biased
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Timothy Keller
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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...
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Smell and Prejudice
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Lauren F. Winner
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- Poverty
- Justice
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Romans 12:16, John 13:14-15, Luke 6:20-21, Matthew 7:12, Proverbs 22:2
I read George Orwell’s book about class and working conditions in early-twentieth-century England, The Road to Wigan Pier . The book’s most famous passage considers smell: Here you come to the...
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Jonathan Walton
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- Race
To the world around me, I am black. And to respond with “I don’t see color” dismisses my lived experience.
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Robert Benchley
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- Humanity
- Diversity and Inclusion
There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.
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Poverty from Differing Perspectives
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Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
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We have conducted the previous exercise in dozens of middle-to-upper-class, predominantly Caucasian, North American churches. In the vast majority of cases, these audiences describe poverty differentl...
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Lesslie Newbigin
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A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.
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Race and Idolatry
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Curtiss Paul DeYoung Et Al
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- Race
- Idolatry
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Acts 17:26, 1 Samuel 16:7
What the early Christians did not have to deal with to the same extent that we do today is how race has become an idol. On both sides of the racial divide, so much is twisted by the social constructs ...
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Ken Myers
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[Suffering] may be as serious for modern Christians as persecution and plagues were for the saints of earlier centuries… it is the burden of living in a consumer culture where the individual looms lar...
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Separate But Unequal
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John M. Perkins
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- Segregation
Desegregation was one of the big goals of the civil rights movement. “Separate but equal” in the South became “separate and unequal.” The disparities were in things as small as water fountains and as ...
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John Piper
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- Race
When you are the majority ethnicity, nothing you do is ethnic. It’s just the way it’s done. When you are a minority, everything you do has color.
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Jacqueline Jones
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- Race
The myth of race is, at its heart, about power relations, and in order to understand how it evolved, we must avoid vague theoretical and historical formulations and instead ask, Who benefited from the...
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The Original Sin of Racism
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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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- 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...
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One Kind of Folks
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Harper Lee
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- 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?”
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.
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Getting Sorted
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Bill Bishop
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As people seek out the social settings they prefer—as they choose the group that makes them feel the most comfortable—the nation grows more politically segregated—and the benefit that ought to come wi...
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Curious About Oregon
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D. L. Mayfield
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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...