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Living into the Hard Choices
By: Dee Dee Risher | March 5, 2003
I’ve been drawn to a powerful but obscure story nestled in the Hebrew Bible. I’ve come to see the story as a metaphor for the struggle we all face in seeking to incarnate God’s way of justice and peace in our unique situations. In 2 Kings 4:8–37, we find the tale of an [...]
Biblical Reconciliation 101
By: Victoria Peterson-Hilleque | March 5, 2003
Quick Bible quiz: Name one African person in the Bible. Did you mention Hagar, Simon of Cyrene or Apollos of Alexandria? What about the Ethiopian eunuch, or Queen Candace? If none of these characters came to mind, perhaps it’s due to a lack of understanding of the cultural and ethnic forces at [...]
Red and Yellow, Black and White: Racial Inequality in the American Church
By: Julia Bloom | March 5, 2003
To be white and middle class in America is to be a participant in a privileged power structure. Often unknowingly, we lay poverty and discrimination at the door of communities of color. The challenge to white middle-class people who follow Jesus is to begin to notice the cries of pain from these communities.
Book Review: What Science Says About Superiority: Shattering the Myth of Race
By: Kriss Erickson | March 5, 2003
Shattering the Myth of Race by Dave Unander is a thoughtful discussion of the conflict of race and ethnicity against the backdrop of the history of Western Europe and the United States.
A Biblical Response to America's Racial and Ethnic Crisis
By: Steve Nicholson | January 31, 2000
I knew the Bible had hundreds of scriptures about the poor, but I never suspected it had so much to say about the problems of a multi-ethnic society. However, I found dozens of scriptures that spoke very directly to the ethnic problems we are facing as a nation.
Habits of Companionship
By: Jo Kadlecek | January 31, 2000
I used to hate the word lonely. Where I came from, to say you were lonely was to admit weakness. Even to utter the word was to confess vulnerability. You were exposed, out of control. And maybe a little incompetent. God forbid a white, educated, middle-class woman from the great American West should be incompetent!
Who is My Neighbor?
By: Spencer Perkins | January 31, 2000
Stripped of all the theological debates and boiled down to its raw essence, Christianity and Christians will be judged by two actions: how much we love God and how well we demonstrate that by loving our neighbor. This is Christianity in a nutshell. But pushing these two great commands to the back pages of our [...]
A More Excellent Way: Race and Gender Reconciliation Through Christ
By: Brenda Salter McNeil | January 31, 2000
By looking at the life of Jesus, the one who came to reconcile the world to himself, we can extrapolate several principles and requirements for reconciliation.
Overcoming Barriers
By: Jennifer Sudderth | April 30, 1999
Jesus Christ wants his body to become one—every church, every person. He wants his body to experience the unity with him and with each other that he experiences with his Father. But this unity is hindered by barriers of many kinds.
Plain Vanilla Christianity: The Ongoing Need for Racial Reconciliation in Evangelism
By: Jo Kadlecek | July 31, 1997
Amid an increasingly polarized U.S. society, does the evangelical community reflect the dominant culture more than the biblical mandate for unity and justice in race relations? Some suggest the coals of a “racial reconciliation movement” in the church are catching fire.