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John Perkins’ Journey from Segregation to Reconciliation
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Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice
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Ephesians 2:14-16, Galatians 3:28
In 1970 John Perkins, an African American pastor and community organizer who lived on “the black side” of rural Mendenhall, Mississippi, was nearly beaten to death by white state police officers. The ...
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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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The Puzzle of Polygamy
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Bradley Long
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1 Timothy 3:2, 12, Titus 1:6
A classic mission dilemma: The chief of a village in a remote area, whose people practice a tribal religion, becomes a believer and declares the whole village is now Christian. Most of the leading m...
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Race and Friendship
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Colossians 3:11, 1 Corinthians 12:25-26, Romans 12:10, James 2:1, Galatians 3:28
In a 2009 stand-up special, Chris Rock made a funny, and perhaps true, statement: “All my black friends have a bunch of white friends. And all my white friends have one black friend.” It turns out, R...
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Sherwood G. Lingenfelter and Marvin K. Mayers
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The key for successful personal relationships and ministry is to understand and accept others as having a viewpoint as worthy of consideration as our own.
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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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Timothy Keller
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Nearly every racial minority in the US understands Euro-white culture pretty well, but we whites are far more ignorant of how the cultures of others operate.
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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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White Culture?
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Daniel Hill
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- Culture
- Race
It was a cold December weekend in Chicago, and I was excited. One of my best friends was getting married, and to top it off, he had asked me to officiate the wedding. I was honored by the invitation, ...
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A Review of "The Minority Experience" by Adrian Pei
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Ephesians 2:14, Galatians 3:28, 2 Corinthians 5:18-20, Proverbs 31:8-9, James 2:1-4, Amos 5:24, Isaiah 1:17
Editors Note: This is perhaps less a review as a jumping off part to articulate some thoughts I developed while reading The Minority Experience. For a full review of the title, a cursory google search...
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On Equal Ground?
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Adrian Pei
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- Perspective
- Race
Author Drew Hart tells the story of meeting up for sweet tea with a friendly white suburban pastor, who placed his foam cup on the table between them and decided to make a racial analogy. The white pa...
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The Solution to Divisions
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James Bryan Smith
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The solution to gender, race and social divisions is not to eradicate our differences but to see them in light of Jesus. The Pentecostal movement in the United States in the early twentieth century wa...
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About Anti-Asian Racism in America (And What Your Church Can Do About)
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Jin Cho
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Revelation 7:9
The following article was originally written for the author’s denominational newsletter as part of the celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. It is meant to provide some insights into t...
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O God, you created all people in your
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O God, you created all people in your image. We thank you for the astonishing variety of races and cultures in this world. Enrich our lives by ever-widening circles of friendship, and show us your pre...
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Science And Race
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Ken Wytsma
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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...
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Describe Your First Encounter with Race
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Daniel Hill
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- Race
Whenever I lead a training session on cultural identity—particularly when there’s a strong white presence—I begin with this question: “Describe the first encounter you remember having with race.” Most...
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Maya Angelou
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become fri...
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Reading Scripture as a Black Man
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Bryan C. Loritts
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- Race
- Moses
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Matthew 2:13, Acts 8:26, Exodus 2:21, Numbers 12:1, 1 Corinthians 7:21, Ephesians 6:5, Colossians 3:22, Acts 10:null
As a black man, I pause when I see that Jesus was taken to Africa as a baby for refuge (Matthew 2:13–18). My blackness will not allow me to gloss over the Ethiopian man whom Philip cozies up to in Act...
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Justin Martyr
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We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people and pray for our enemies.
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Racial Division in America
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Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith
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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...
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Practicing Corporate Repentance
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George Yancey
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In his insightful work, Beyond Racial Gridlock, George Yancey provides a multi-faceted picture of both the brokenness of American race-relations, as well as a response couched in the gospel. In this e...
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One of the gravest dangers to the Christian faith
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Alan Paton
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Exodus 5:1-21, 1 Samuel 8:4-22, Isaiah 1:10-17 , Matthew 23:23-28 , Galatians 3:26-29, Psalm 146:3-9
One of the gravest dangers to the Christian faith is its wholesale appropriation of the larger culture. When this happens, the citizens of those places cannot recognize the difference between their cu...
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To Look White
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Adrian Pei
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Many minorities actually try to change their appearance to look more light-skinned or white. Eliza Noh, assistant professor of Asian American studies at California State University of Fullerton descri...
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Brooke Hempell
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- Race
More than any other segment of the population, white evangelical Christians demonstrate a blindness to the struggle of their African American brothers and sisters….This is a dangerous reality for the ...
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Dana Robert
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- Christianity
- Global Christianity
The typical late twentieth-century Christian was no longer a European man but a Latin American or African woman.
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W.E.B. Du Bois and Double Consciousness: Being Black in America
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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In his seminal work, the Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois describes the unique challenge to identity one faces being both Black and American. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-conscious...
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Would You Let Your Son Marry A Democrat? Or Republican?
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The Pastor's Workshop
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The last 80 years of American politics have unfortunately seen a dramatic increase in political polarization. One reporter likened the relationship between Republicans and Democrats to the famous Shak...
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Racial Reconciliation Not Needed?
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Ken Wytsma
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2 Corinthians 5:18-20
In a recent Barna survey, only 56 percent of evangelicals agree that people of color are often placed at a social disadvantage, lower than the national average of 67 percent. At the same time, 95 perc...
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Philip Jenkins
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- Western Culture
- Global Christianity
By 2050, only about one-fifth of the world’s 3 billion Christians will be non-Hispanic Whites. Soon, the phrase ‘a White Christian’ may sound like a curious oxymoron, as mildly surprising as ‘a Swedis...
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In Christ there is no East or West, In
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John Oxenham
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Galatians 3:28, 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, Colossians 3:11, Romans 3:29-30, Ephesians 4:4, Romans 10:12
In Christ there is no East or West, In Christ no South or North; But one great family of love Throughout the whole wide earth. In Christ shall true hearts everywhere Their high communion find; H...