While many feel inspired by this embodiment of love and forgiveness, others believe you cannot hug away decades of racism and police brutality.
All in Culture
While many feel inspired by this embodiment of love and forgiveness, others believe you cannot hug away decades of racism and police brutality.
How does my understanding of myself as an American citizen with these guaranteed rights inform my view of gospel living?
If you are going to read two post-civil rights books on race, there are two short classics that I would recommend. (Nonfiction)
Roth takes seriously how nationalism, nativism, race hatred, and fear of the other can turn dangerous and then deadly. (Fiction)
If you walk into a pre-K classroom and tell one child you like their socks, within seconds you will have 15 four-year-olds all showing you their socks. We all want to be seen.
We must be good neighbors if we are to follow the second greatest command: love our neighbor as ourselves.
In the story of Zacchaeus, we see two clear examples of what it looks like to push back against accepted culture and instead do what is right.
In the New Testament—and still today—the Spirit prompts a worldwide and cross-cultural vision of the kingdom of God.
How ought people of faith to think about these matters? Do we have an obligation to enter into political space at all?
The historical answer to our question is simple and tragic. We segregate because of the sin of racism.
I fear that we’ve buried our noses so deep in our texts, that we have forgotten that we have a mission in the world.
While there’s no doubt about the massive good done by many evangelical churches, evangelicalism as a whole has a real problem. For followers of Jesus, this should be a major issue.
As the Christian evangelical church in the West, in general, you don’t have to look very far to see that we have missed the mark on evangelism.
What are these barriers these families face, and how can the church accommodate?
We hardly hear Christian leaders talk about our working lives at all, but when we do, they most often say that hard work is a supreme virtue
I’ve heard the statement a thousand times: “Politics don’t belong in church!”
Once in a while, something comes along that shakes up that little world of mine, and I am forced to lift my eyes to the larger world—the one God sees all the time.
The problem with the idea promoted by comments like “I’m color blind” is that the idea does not communicate what we white people may think it does.
Have you been in a small group discussion but felt unable to give your opinion?
