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A Study on Race in the New Testament by William Larkin
“Racial/ ethnic prejudice was a definite factor in ancient life and thought. Relations among the ethnic groups in an ever expanding Roman empire was a problem to be constantly addressed. And for Christianity with its gospel for all peoples, the barriers of prejudice spawned by pride, fear, and the desire to dominate had to be broken through if the church was to be a faithful expression of the truths on which it was founded.”
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Why is the Church So Segregated? by Brad Bellmore
One pastor pointed out that merely because we had achieved diversity in the pews didn’t mean we had achieved integration. Segregation might still exist. It’s still easy to avoid people of another race. Many churches have a variety of races represented in the congregation, but they do not interact outside of church. Some have successfully mixed racially in a structured environment—small groups, ministry teams, outreach events. A few churches have held progressive dinners that have had families of various races meeting at each others’ homes to eat.
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7 Principles of the New Culture – Introduction
It was September 22, 2001 in Queens, New York. Those of us who lived in New York City were still reeling from the attacks on the World Trade Center. Smoke from the remains of the two towers could still be seen from miles
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A Biblical Theology of the City by Tim Keller
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http://theresurgence.com/tim_keller_2002_a_biblical_theology_of_the_city
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A Framework for Social Healing by Andrew Sears
“This material provides an introduction to a vision of “Social Healing” as a way to transform ourselves, our churches and our society to address injustice and bring the Gospel to our communities and the world. The goal of this material will help us to better understand our own church cultures and how to foster minority cultures within our church communities to develop communities that can more effectively address injustice.”
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A Guide to African-Americans and Religion
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http://www.religionlink.org/tip_070108.php
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A Guide to Hispanics and Religion in the U.S.
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http://www.religionlink.org/tip_061204.php
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A More Excellent Way by Brenda Salter McNeil
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http://www.cbeinternational.org/new/E-Journal/2005/05Summer/05Summcneil.html
An update on Dr. McNeil’s biographical information at the end of this article…
This article was published in 2005 while she was serving on staff with InterVarsity. She is currently serving as President…
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A Multiethnic Model of the Church by Russell Rosser
“The multiethnic, multicongregational church is a church that has adopted the challenge of biblical justice and mission in the context of cultural diversity, racial tensions, increased pluralism, and multiple linguistic and cultural complexities to build symbiotic relationships and harmony between diverse groups, intent on bringing biblical reconciliation between them. The foundation for this display of the Kingdom of God is the reconciling power of the cross of Christ that brings people to obedience to the vision of God for all humanity. The multiethnic and multicongregational church provides for both autonomy and interdependency.”
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A New Day Dawning? by David R. Swartz
“In Jesus and Justice he does precisely that, circling back to Friday’s injustices, only to return again to Sunday in declaring his confidence in a resurrection of authentic social justice. Switching metaphors, Heltzel concludes that American evangelicalism has matured into a prophetic movement “in a shade of blue-green—blue representing the tragedy of black suffering and green symbolizing the hope of a new social engagement with poverty, AIDS, and the environment.”
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A New Kind of Urban Christian by Tim Keller
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http://www.christianvisionproject.com/2006/06/a_new_kind_of_urban_christian.html
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A Tale of Three Churches by Gary Teja
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http://www.thebanner.org/magazine/article.cfm?article_id=122
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"When it comes to racial and ethnic diversity in the Christian Reformed Church, these are the best of times—and the worst of times. Churches either succeed at becoming multiethnic…
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African Americans in World Missions
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http://www.urbana.org/feat.aamission.u70.cfm
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An Incomplete Reconciliation
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But it is not just the straightforward testimony to life with Christ that stirred me. Ironically, in the week since first reading Home to Holly Springs, I have found that it is Karon’s limited reckoning with racism that…
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Barna Group: America’s Seven Faith Tribes Hold the Key to National Restoration
“Many of our religious organizations have focused on competing for bodies, dollars and talent rather than upholding core values such as service, obedience, simplicity, purpose, responsibility, accountability, humility, compassion and community. Without our faith tribes playing their historic role as the moral and spiritual leaders of the nation, we have taken our values cues from the political and business sectors. That has lowered the bar on character and vision. That, in turn, has led the nation to deteriorate from a place on unity amidst diversity to a place of individualism amidst competition for personal comfort and supremacy.”
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Beyond the Comfort Zone by Jin S. Kim
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http://www.mosaix.info/docs/Beyond%20the%20Comfort%20Zone%20-%20062308.pdf
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Beyond the Comfort Zone by Rob Corcoran
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http://hopeinthecities.org/node/23240
Please Note: This is not a Christian article but we have included it in our resource section because it contains material that you may find helpful for discussion.
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Blessed Are the Courageous
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/aprilweb-only/114-12.0.html
CT received a great deal of criticism for this article. Read their response in Blessed is the Law–Up to a Point article.
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Blessed is the Law—Up to a Point
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/aprilweb-only/114-53.0.html
This article is CT’s response to the criticism they received due to the Blessed Are the Courageous article.
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“Since nearly every critic expressed this exact sentiment, we thought some clarifications were in…
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Can Megachurches Bridge the Racial Divide?
But in some churches, the racial divide is beginning to erode, and it is fading fastest in one of American religion’s most conservative precincts: Evangelical Christianity. According to Michael Emerson, a specialist on race and faith at Rice University, the proportion of American churches with 20% or more minority participation has languished at about 7.5% for the past nine years. But among Evangelical churches with attendance of 1,000 people or more, the slice has more than quadrupled, from 6% in 1998 to 25% in 2007.
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Choosing Multi-Ethnic Over Mega by Brandon O’Brien
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http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/archives/2008/04/choosing_multie.html
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Color Blindness, Political Correctness, or Racial Reconciliation: Christian Ethics and Race by George Yancey
“Reconciliation theology offers a third way to examine the problems of race within our society. It is an ideology that evangelicals may be able to use to attract non-believers who are dissatisfied with the answers that they have received from the two secular models. It is also a model by which Christians can gain a better understanding of racial issues. Therefore, we must find ways to communicate our vision of reconciliation to the larger American society. We need our churches to go beyond superficial racial platitudes to make the Body of Christ an instrument that develops healthy, close, egalitarian, and reconciled racial relationships.”
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Education in Color By Christine Scheller
“I do not suggest that every family raising a child of a different race pick up roots and move to an integrated community or join an integrated church (obviously, this will not be possible for everyone). Despite the negatives, for us, having done so was one of the best parenting decisions we ever made.”
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Empowering Communities – Interview with John Perkins
“We have developed a program called the Voorhees Ave. Leadership House. This is a joint program with Seattle Pacific University. At the house we are taking young black men and adding young white men, primarily from Seattle, who come down and go to school at Jackson State. Jackson State is an all-black school and so the white students become a minority. What we have at the Voorhees Ave. House is a sort of a reconciling community. We are supporting those young blacks and also helping them to overcome their own inferiority, and of course we are helping the whites to overcome their superiority. That’s what that house is for. It is an experiment; it takes time.”
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Enlarging your worship culture
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“There is a pressing need for a new way for diverse people to come together in worship. North America is becoming increasingly multicultural. Universities and colleges are unique shelters of hundreds for people groups. If we are to…
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Ethnic Blends? by Mark DeYmaz
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2008/002/11.49.html
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Exit Interviews: Why blacks are leaving evangelical ministries by Edward Gilbreath
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/february/4.104.html
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Five Steps Toward Christian Intercultural Teaching by Jim Sutherland
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http://www.rmni.org/1/missions/5-steps-for-intercultural-teaching.html
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From Galatia to Baltimore by Robert Lynn
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http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=7108
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Getting Real About Reconciliation by Todd Minturn
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http://www.urbana.org/_articles.cfm?RecordId=217
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Going to Bat for His Neighbors
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"On an evening walk in August 1990, Muzikowski met an African-American man named Al Carter, who was conducting batting practice with some kids. Carter, a product of the neighborhood, carried with him its history and hope. Carter’s local…
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Harder than Anyone Can Imagine
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/april/23.36.html
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"Hybels: Willow Creek started in the era when, as the book noted, the church-growth people were saying, "Don’t dissipate any of your energies fighting race issues. Focus everything on…
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Hope Deferred by Stephen Carter
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/july/19.64.html
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Hues in the Pews by John Dart
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_7_118/ai_71949662
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" The Congregations Project, based at Rice, is believed to be the first large study focused on racial and ethnic diversity within Christian houses of worship. Emerson and colleagues…
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Interview with Charles Marsh
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/februaryweb-only/32.0c.html
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Interview with Chris Rice
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/novemberweb-only/11-11-23.0.html
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Interview with Dave Gibbons
“Well, I did notice just how ethnocentric congregations were. I had grown up in a pretty homogeneous white church and went to megachurches that were all white. That always bothered me. Why was this going on?
Then I went to a Korean Church and quickly realized they had the same issues. If the truth were known, they’d hate it if their children married an African America guy—or, for many of them, even a white guy.”
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Interview with InterVarsity’s Director of Multiethnic Ministries
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"We want to join hands with students and faculty and create an environment where people from every ethnic group can come and experience the love of God and meet people who are followers of Jesus. How do we…
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Interview with John Perkins
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http://www.theotherjournal.com/article.php?id=65
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Interview with Rick Richardson and Brenda Salter-McNeil
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In what ways does God prod Christians today to "get out of Jerusalem"?
Brenda: The dominant culture of the United States is experiencing some major wake-up calls. I don’t think you have to be one political party or…
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Interview with Rick Richardson and Brenda Salter-McNeil
“When we stay isolated like the disciples initially did, in our Jerusalem, wherever that might be—our Presbyterianism, my Pentecostalism, my suburb or my city, my Black church or your Latino church or your Chinese Christian church—when we stay too long in Jerusalem, we start to think that reconciliation begins and ends there.”
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Interview with the staff of River City Community Church
“Most of our new people are white. But there’s a revolving door with the white community here. They have a romantic notion of being part of a multi-ethnic church, so many of them get frustrated and leave when they realize how difficult it is to release their assumptions about the way church is supposed to be.”
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Introduction to Cross Cultural Ministry by Jim Sutherland
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http://www.ethnicharvest.org/links/articles/sutherland1.html
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Is Your Baby Racist? by Bronson and Merryman
For decades, it was assumed that children see race only when society points it out to them. However, child-development researchers have increasingly begun to question that presumption.
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It’s About Moral, Not Market, Values
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As the only African-American female faculty member on the campus, clearly I represented what the college meant by “diversity.” But when I asked questions designed to prompt thinking about the relationship between the college’s history and mission and…
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Jesus the Jew in America by Peter Goodwin Heltzel
Carter’s bold vision stands as a challenge to black and white theological projects alike. He calls black theologians to drop essentialist notions of blackness in order to center their racial critique in what is distinctively Christian about their Christian identity. Carter calls white theologians to confession and repentance; by identifying the idol of whiteness in Christian modernity, white theologians can begin to relinquish their power and privilege through a deep engagement with a prophetic stream of black Christianity that has been rendered invisible in traditional theology.
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Jewish and Samaritan Relations During the Time of Christ
Why should we care about how Jews and Samaritans related to one another 2000 years ago? Because their relationship provides extremely helpful context to understanding how Jesus and the early Christian church dealt with ethnic divisions and animosity. Learning about…
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Metaphors for the Church
What is like a family, a bride, branches on a vine, an olive tree, a field of crops, a harvest, a temple, a group of priests, God’s house, a pillar, and a body? – US! The Bible is filled…
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More Than Family by Chris Rice
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http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj9909&article=990961
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Multiracial Congregations in America
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http://hirr.hartsem.edu/cong/articles_multiracialcongs.html
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"Multiracial congregations in the U.S. are rare. In a recent national study, Michael Emerson and his colleagues found that mixed race congregations, those having no more than 80 percent…
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Multiracial in the Age of Obama By Kyle Waalen
“Mixed-race people reflect that part of God’s heart which is all about “breaking down the wall of hostility and making the two one.” In our very creation, we represent God’s commitment to reconciliation.”
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One Lord, One Faith, Many Ethnicities
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/january/4.52.html
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Pivoting Toward the Faraway Neighbor
“Historians will be able to look back and see that there was a Christian community that was largely disengaged from the struggle for justice in the world, but that over a generation it moved to engagement. It’s not a movement IJM has led or made happen so much as one we have been riding in the wake of what God is doing among his people. There is this wave of conviction that I believe his Spirit has generated. It has changed the picture of what mission means.”
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Pondering the Primacy of Being Created in the Image of God by John Piper
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http://www.epm.org/artman2/publish/racial_reconciliation/Race_and_Interracial_Marriage.shtml
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Principle 1: On Earth As It Is in Heaven
“This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts,…
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Principle 2: Just As You Are in Me and I Am in You
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.…
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Principle 3: I Am Making Everything New!
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out…
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Principle 4: Seek Justice, Encourage the Oppressed
“When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood; wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil…
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Principle 5: Had Everything In Common
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were…
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Principle 6: By This All Men Will Know You Are My Disciples
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” – Jesus Christ…
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Principle 7: They Will Renew the Ruined Cities
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release…
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Race and Religion in America
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http://www.religionlink.org/tip_070402a.php
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Race: The final frontier
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When Anglos, Hispanics, African-Americans and Nigerians gather in the same place on Sunday morning, planning worship presents challenges.
“Its a lot more than just a question of hymns or choruses,” said Charlie Brown, pastor of The Crossing Baptist…
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Racial Reconciliation and the Christian Gospel by Tim Gombis
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In the thinking of many Christians, the notion of racial reconciliation does not have a direct relationship to the gospel of Jesus Christ. We may agree that Christians of different ethnicities ought to get along, but many would…
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Racial Reconciliation: After the Hugs, What? by Andres T. Tapia
“The exchange of warm fuzzies won’t do, either. For instance, when the nearly 70,000 men present at the Chicago pk rally were asked by the emcee, “Gentlemen, why are we here?,” they shook the stadium with shouts of “To break down the walls!” But racial reconciliation involves more than a pep rally.”
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Rare Repentance
“A few weeks ago, Elwin Wilson contacted representative Lewis to apologize for beating Lewis nearly 48 years ago. For the past several weeks, Wilson has been apologizing to members of the African-American community in Rock Hills for his numerous acts of racial hatred. He has had the guts to simply say "I’m sorry." And representative John Lewis responded to this former member of the KKK with mercy, grace, and forgiveness, and now refers to Wilson as a friend.”
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Recession is Looming: How Can We Prepare?
“A few years ago, an inner-city Methodist church in Chicago answered this question not only by activating their neighborhood networks, but also by collaborating with a rural Methodist church. Farmers in the rural church grew thousands of fruit tree seedlings. Then the urban community networks planted these fruit trees in parking strips and backyards all over their inner-city neighborhoods to significantly increase the food-producing capability of the community for good times and tough times.”
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Reconciliation as the Mission of God
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http://www.reconciliationnetwork.com/documents/paper.pdf
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Remixing Miyagi
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I grew up in a place called Birmingham, AL. Since moving to the Northeast for school and work in 2000, I’ve been forced into the role of the reluctant defender of the South. Yes, I would tell countless…
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Searching for God in the Rubble of an Earthquake by Robert Kellemen
“Satan desires that we focus only on the smaller story and conclude that “Life Is Bad, and So Is God.” God urges us to focus upon the larger story and realize that “Life Is Bad, but God Is Good.” One of the keys to our spiritual life, especially during times of personal suffering or national tragedy, is to move people from Satan’s view of life toward God’s perspective on this life and the next.”
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Speaking into the Meltdown by Gordon MacDonald
“Today’s meltdown may actually force us to deal with the justice question: is it truly Christian for some to live so well while others—not just lazy people—live so unwell. Justice has not been well-taught subject for most of us … until now, possibly.”
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Standing with the Desolate by Ziya Meral
“The question was, where were we who were called to share their pain, to give food and water to Christ’s thirsty and hungry representatives, and to comfort them during their ordeals? So, even though every now and then I wonder how I end up in random places and difficult situations, I know why I am there. I am there as a response to an ethical imperative to love my neighbor as myself.”
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Struggle for MLK’s dream isn’t over
“While Obama’s win may have taken the edge off some of King’s inspirational rhetoric, it should not lead to complacency in the fight for social justice. There is still much work to be done. Obama’s election does not solve the many problems facing the African-American community. We will continue to face disparities in health care, including an infant mortality rate twice as high as whites, and 20 percent of blacks still lack basic health insurance, according to government statistics…”
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Tale of Two Churches by Kevin Butcher
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https://www3420.ssldomain.com/mosaix/docs/0603-Tale-of-Two-Churches.pdf
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The Beloved Community By Maria Garriott
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http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=7950
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The Call of Samuel
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/september/31.82.html
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"Rodriguez should be happy with his new prominence, but he doesn’t look entirely happy. "Immigration puts us at odds with our white evangelical brothers," he says. He has spent years building alliances,…
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The Cross-Cultural Classroom
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http://lessonplans.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/the-cross-cultural-classroom/
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"I often think of culture in terms of the “iceberg concept” commonly used in educational studies, with its small visible tip and huge mass below the surface. Most people tend to view…
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The Culture Clasher
“If you only create a safe place, you can become too comfortable and feel no need to change and grow. If you only have the presence of discomfort, you generate too much stress to allow for growth. Both a safe place and discomfort must exist to move towards growth. My book is an attempt to introduce a bit of discomfort to the overly comfortable culture of American evangelicalism.”
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The Gospel for iGens by Scot McKnight
Anyone who vividly sketches a community marked by justice, love, peace, and holiness has a message iGens want to hear. The self hidden behind the castle wall is now interested. And I have found that the self-in-a-castle feels shame about systemic sin, and their sensitivity to things like AIDS, poverty, and racism leads inevitably to recognizing the sin in each person.
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The Importance of Fellowship in a New Testament Church by Bob Gillam
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http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=437
A brief summary
This is part 3 of a 6 part series on, “The Measure of a New Testament Church”. In this article, Dr. Gillam provides an excellent explanation of the meaning of…
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The New Culture Vs. Diversity Training
I will occasionally ask someone I meet what their experience has been with secular diversity training programs. Their response usually begins with a roll of their eyes and then follows with something along the lines of, "Yea, they made…
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The Psychology of Prejudice
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http://www.understandingprejudice.org/apa/english/page7.htm
Please Note: This is not a Christian article but we have included it in our resource section because it contains material that you may find helpful for discussion.
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Unreached Peoples: The Unique and Primary Goal of Missions by John Piper
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http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Articles/ByDate/1991/2462_Unreached_Peoples
A brief summary
In this paper, Dr. Piper argues that the Greek phrase pas ethnos (which can be found throughout the New Testament) was intended by the Biblical authors to mean “all people…
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What is so important about “Koinonia”?
It is typically translated in English as “fellowship”. (see below for a more thorough definition)
Why is this term important for building biblical, multi-ethnic community? Koinonia is our “target” – is what the early Christians shared with one another and what we should work towards.
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What is so important about “Pas Ethnos”?
What language is this?
Koine Greek – the language that most of the New Testament was written in.
What does it mean?
“all nations” or “all ethnic groups”
Why is this term important for building biblical, multi-ethnic community?
If…
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What the Kennedy Funeral Taught Me by Gordon MacDonald
“Taught not to like him.” The comment bothered me for several days. Exactly how is that done? I wondered. Certainly Kennedy, like all of us, was flawed. But how are we taught to dislike particular flawed people and not others? Perhaps part of the answer lies in words shaped into gossip, slander, and reflexive opinions expressed without regard to the damage they cause.
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Why Some Churches Integrate Successfully and Others Don’t by Michael Emerson
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http://www.explore.rice.edu/explore/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=8229
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You may be more racist than you think, study says
“A new study published Thursday in the journal Science suggests many people unconsciously harbor racist attitudes, even though they see themselves as tolerant and egalitarian.”
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