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 I’ve kind of avoided the topic of Black History Month this year until now, almost the end of the month. The reason is, I’ve been kicking around in my mind this notion of “Black History Month Syndrome.” Now, stay with…
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Tags: Africa, African Americans, America, American Indian, Apostle Paul, Black Church, Black History Month, calendar, celebration, Christianity, christianity today, church, citizenship, Community, culture, Diversity, ethnic, Evangelical, female, Gender, Gospel, heritages, Hispanic, hispanic heritage month, History, July 4th, justice, magazine, Media, Multicultural, multiracial, Music, myth, Native American, newsweek, oppressed, PBS, President Obama, Race, Racial Reconciliation, reconciliation, school, service, Story, system, United States, Urban, White, Women
 As far as African American history books go, Heroes in Black History is unique. First of all, it was written by a white couple whose passion for their subject matter leaps off the page. Second, the book places the spiritual lives…
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Tags: Africa, African Americans, America, Black, Black History Month, Books, Christianity, church, conversion, Election, ethnic group, Evangelical, faith, George Washington, History, history of african americans, holy spirit, interview, Jesus, John Perkins, Martin Luther King Jr., Movement, Multiethnic, murder, Prayer, Privilege, Race, racial, Racism, reconciliation, Religion, Slavery, Stories, sunday school, White, white supremacist
Racial reconciliation among evangelicals is one of those slippery topics that come and go based on which national leader is currently jazzed about it. Back in the mid-1990s, when the Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, and Promise Keepers were riding high on…
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Tags: african america, African Americans, America, Asian American, asian americans, Bill Hybels, Black, Christian, christian smith, Christianity, christianity today, church, churches, class, Community, conflict, david van biema, Diversity, Divided by Faith, Evangelical, evangelical church, evangelical community, Evangelicals, Family, History, interview, justice, Latino, Latinos, leaders, Media, michael emerson, Ministry, pastor, pastors, Pentecostal, pentecostals, promise keepers, Race, racial, racial diversity, Racial Reconciliation, reconciliation, Religion, Segregation, social justice, southern baptist, Southern Baptists, Suburbs, Time, Urban, White, White Evangelicals, Willow Creek, willow creek community church
Time magazine’s Jan. 11 issue hit newsstands last week with a compelling teaser on its cover: “How Megachurches Are Helping Bridge America’s Racial Divide.” Soon, e-mails and Facebook updates from friends alerted me to the article and urged me to check it…
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Tags: african america, African Americans, America, Asian American, asian americans, Bill Hybels, Black, Christian, christian smith, Christianity, christianity today, church, churches, class, Community, conflict, david van biema, Diversity, Divided by Faith, Evangelical, evangelical church, evangelical community, Evangelicals, Family, History, interview, justice, Latino, Latinos, leaders, Media, michael emerson, Ministry, pastor, pastors, Pentecostal, pentecostals, promise keepers, Race, racial, racial diversity, Racial Reconciliation, reconciliation, Religion, Segregation, social justice, southern baptist, Southern Baptists, Suburbs, Time, Urban, White, White Evangelicals, Willow Creek, willow creek community church
Tags: Affirmative Action, African Americans, America, Bill Hybels, Black, Christianity, church, Community, context, culture, david van biema, Diversity, Evangelical, History, identity, leaders, leadership, magazine, Ministry, mixed race, Race, racial, Racial Reconciliation, reconciliation, Religion, Scripture, Time, Urban, White, white churches, Willow Creek
O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant …
It was a chilly December night in downtown Chicago, and about a dozen of us from a suburban Christian college were Christmas caroling. My best friend, Uriel, stood next to me as…
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Tags: appearance, Black, Chicago, Christianity, Christmas, christmas carol, Evangelical, Family, food, gratitude, Holiday, Homeless, Jesus, money, opportunity, reconciliation, Suburban, Suburbs, Urban, White
Tags: Asia, Asian American, asian american community, assumptions, Black, Books, Christianity, comments, Community, compassion, conflict, controversy, courage, curriculum, deadly viper, Eugene Cho, facebook, gesture, Hope, jud wilhite, kathy khang, ken fong, mike foster, negative stereotypes, political correctness, Prayer, protest, Race, reconciliation, Repentance, soong-chan rah, stereotype, twitter, Women, zondervan
One of the toughest parts of being the author of a book about racial reconciliation is that when the latest racial incident flares up, everyone expects you to chime in with your two cents. I’m feeling a bit penniless on…
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Tags: African Americans, Asia, Asian American, Black, Books, Christian Community, comments, controversy, culture, deadly viper, dialogue, disrespect, Evangelical, facebook, heritages, humility, jud wilhite, karate, kung fu, leadership, marginalized, market, mike foster, minority group, Race, racial, Racial Reconciliation, reconciliation, Repentance, sensitive, stereotype, symbol, zondervan
A Facebook friend sent me a link to a wonderful YouTube video. The clip, which apparently has now gone viral with over 366,000 views so far, captures 3-year-old Hannah as she recites a freestyle prayer before bedtime. Her exhausted dad…
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Tags: abuse, Bible, Children, chris rock, comments, dobson, Evangelical, grandparents, humility, Jesus, obligations, parenting, pray, Prayer, Religion, Religious, sunday school, sunday school teachers, teenage, teenager, television, values, youtube
On a sad but pivotal day in the late 1780s, several of the African American members of Philadelphia’s St. George’s Methodist Church were thrown out of the church by the congregation’s white leaders because of their refusal to sit in a…
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 One of the big conversations in my household this year has revolved around the question of whether my 9-year-old daughter is ready to get her hair “permed.” Some girls at her school have already been initiated into the world of…
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Tags: al sharpton, America, Black, black hair, black women, bronner bros hair show, chris rock, church, documentary, Film, good hair, hair industry, Maya Angelou, Media, peer pressure, relaxed hair, satire, social commentary, straightening black hair, subculture, weave, White, Women
Tags: Afghanistan, fareed zakaria, health care reform, International, international cooperation, nobel committee, nobel peace prize, nuclear threats, peace, President Obama, rhetoric, UN, War
Sixteen Christian leaders talk faith, policy, justice, and reform. Featuring Jim Wallis, Harry R. Jackson Jr., Alveda King, Brian McLaren, Barbara Williams-Skinner, Noel Castellanos, Diana Butler Bass, and more.
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We…
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Tags: abortions, affordable health care, Civility, common good, compassion, Conservative, consistent ethic of life, Democracy, Democrats, Evangelical, Evangelicals, faith community, Faith-based, government funding, health coverage, health plan, health plans, health-care debate, Healthcare, healthcare plan, healthcare reform, Human Rights, injustice, justice, Martin Luther King Jr., Personal Responsibility, Politics, public option, public policy, Racism, reform legislation, Religion, Religious Right, Republican, Republicans, sanctity of life, Segregation, social justice, values
 I have to admit, I wasn’t expecting much when I first took my seat in the theater to preview Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, a 3-D animated comedy based on the popular children’s book. At the very least, I…
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Tags: animated comedy, animated films, cheese, Children, consumption, documentary, feast, Film, food, food inc, food industry, greed, Humor, Kids, morality, movie, movies, redemption, Story, values
Tags: blogosphere, Children, classroom activities, controversy, conversations, Education, facebook, parents and teachers, pep talk, President Obama, public school students, school districts, Schools, White House
It has now been a couple of weeks since President Obama convened what was infamously dubbed the “Beer Summit.” You know the story by now. After Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s arrest and Obama’s subsequent words about the Cambridge, Mass., police acting…
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Tags: biden, Black, black rage, cambridge mass, Change, christian leaders, Christianity, class, classism, Community, conversations, courage, curtiss paul deyoung, D.C., elitism, Forgiveness, henry louis gates, henry louis gates jr, injustices, justice, Law Enforcement, national conversation, Obama, police, President Obama, Race, racial, racial profiling, Racism, Story, systemic injustice, takeaway, transparency, Urban, vashti murphy mckenzie, Washington, White, White House, White Privilege, william pannell
 Are we living in the golden age of racial debates? Every week seems to bring some new wrinkle in the national conversation about race, class, and ethnicity. And with the emergence of social media, we can now engage in these…
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Tags: America, anger, arrest, Black, Christian, Christianity, CNN, conversations, cynicism, debate, Ethnicity, harvard professor, henry louis gates, henry louis gates jr, identity, justice, latina, legacy, michael jackson, national conversation, police, police officer, police officers, President Obama, Race, racial, racial identity, racial profiling, reconciliation, Segregation, sonia sotomayor, Supreme Court, White
Tags: activist, African Americans, America, american christianity, Asia, Asian American, Black, Black Church, Chicago, christian colleges, Christianity, City, Community, controversy, critique, Cross-cultural, cultural context, culture, denomination, dialogue, Emergent, Emerging, Emerging church, equality, ethnic minorities, ethnic minority, Ethnicity, Evangelical, evangelicalism, faith, identity, Immigrant, immigrant communities, insensitivity, interview, korean american, Ministry, Multicultural, Multiethnic, neighbor, New Evangelical, New Monastics, north park, oppression, pastor, Post-Modern, Prayer, Race, Racism, reconciliation, rich, theologian, United States, Urban, Western, White, white churches, White Privilege, Worship
 You can’t do church in the 21st century without a vision for cultural diversity, says author and theologian Soong-Chan Rah.
If spiritual renewal breaks out in a forest and no American Christians are around to witness it, does that mean it…
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Tags: activist, African Americans, America, american christianity, Asia, Asian American, Black, Black Church, Chicago, christian colleges, Christianity, City, Community, controversy, critique, Cross-cultural, cultural context, culture, denomination, dialogue, Emergent, Emerging, Emerging church, equality, ethnic minorities, ethnic minority, Ethnicity, Evangelical, evangelicalism, faith, identity, Immigrant, immigrant communities, insensitivity, interview, korean american, Ministry, Multicultural, Multiethnic, neighbor, New Evangelical, New Monastics, north park, oppression, pastor, Post-Modern, Prayer, Race, Racism, reconciliation, rich, theologian, United States, Urban, Western, White, white churches, White Privilege, Worship
Let the wall-to-wall Michael Jackson coverage continue. As soon as I heard the tragic news about his passing yesterday afternoon, I knew it would mean nonstop fodder for all the CNNs and WGCIs and TMZ.coms (sorry, Farrah). This will be just like Princess…
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Tags: African, african america, American, Black, controversy, death, facebook, hip-hop, king of pop, michael jackson, Music, Race, racial, reconciliation, Urban, Video, White
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