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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Improving Race Relations: Interview with John Perkins

An interview with Dr. John Perkins, one of the great champions of racial unity in the Christian church. Dr. Perkins shares about his life and race relations in the U.S. Great video!

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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 John Piper on Racial Reconciliation in the Church

“There is a beautiful movement today of the “soul-dynamic” in the black church (see Carl Ellis’ book Free At Last?). This dynamic is what characterized the black church over the years when they knew God and saw God, and the God that they knew and saw (not systematically, but experientially and with some articulation of biblical truth) was sovereign, solid, and real. He sustained the black church through slavery and injustice and through crisis after crisis. We now have songs and music that were born out of that suffering, and that vision of God is amazingly coherent with the reformed vision of God as expressed by John Calvin, Martin Luther, Charles Spurgeon, and John Owen.”

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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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Part 1 of 5 – Interview with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah

Dr. Rah shares…
- his background and ministry experience
- about individualism, consumerism, and racism in America
- his advice for someone seeking to start a multi-ethnic church
- About the importance of racially-reconciled communities that exhibit racial justice

(3 votes, average: 9.67 out of 10)

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Part 2 of 5 – Interview with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah

Dr. Rah shares…
- how racism is often thought of as exclusively a “personal issue” — but, the corporate aspect of racism must be recognized and addressed as well
- an example of how the corporate shame of racism was handled in a biblical way

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Part 3 of 5 – Interview with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah

Dr. Rah shares…
- how the growing ethnic minority population in America will have a powerful impact on the values of American society and the church
- how the American church must break free from “white cultural captivity” and work toward a more multi-ethnic church
- suggestions for leaders seeking to build multi-ethnic ministries

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Part 4 of 5 – Interview with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah

Dr. Rah shares…
- books that can help Christian leaders to learn about other cultural perspectives
- suggestions for how we can reach out to other ethnic groups with a “I’ll go to you” mindset rather than a “Come to me” mindset.

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Part 5 of 5 – Interview with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah

Dr. Rah shares…
- there are two different ways we have looked at multi-ethnicity in America… melting pot and salad bowl
- how the dominance of Western, white culture hinders the church’s ability to experience and appreciate ethnic diversity
- suggestions for white Christians who do not understand the reality of white privilege

(5 votes, average: 7.40 out of 10)

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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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