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HeroesBlackHistorycover240x.jpgAs 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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Categories: Books, Diversity, Race

A recent Time magazine article traced the racial transformations of Willow Creek Community Church, one of the five largest congregations in the United States. Remarkably, in a span of just ten years, Willow Creek has gone from being 98% white to what…

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Categories: Diversity, Ministry, Race

Articles like this make me want to celebrate and cringe. Change can be a very difficult, painful process. The desegregation of the church and a deeper and theologically rooted understanding of ethnicity, race, and culture demands current systems, institutions, and…

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Categories: Diversity, Ministry, Race

Dane County, Wisconsin, is an amazing community for African-American babies to be born into.  It is a horrible community in which to live if you are an adult African-American male.  As an African American who is both male and a…

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Last month’s Christianity Today featured an article on the state of evangelicalism by CT’s managing editor, Mark Galli.  In the middle of the article was the following:

Dealing with Cultural Captivity

Another wonderful development is our increased awareness of the variety of…

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Categories: Diversity, Race

[continued from part 1]

You offer a blistering critique of the emerging church movement, suggesting that it is overhyped and lacks diversity. Is diversity possible in the “emerging” or “emergent” churches? It seems as if Christians involved in that movement are extremely…

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Categories: Books, Diversity, Race

The Next EvangelicalismYou 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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Categories: Books, Diversity, Race

Are you a coward? Chicken? When it comes to the issue of race, why are Americans [including Christians] so reticent and reluctant to engage in honest conversations? What are we scared of? This is a thought provoking and honest assessment…

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Categories: Diversity, Race

Dear Sir,

I am writing you this letter after much internal debate to inform you of the many realizations that erupted within me after our very brief encounter yesterday. I am writing you this letter because there is a lot I…

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Categories: Race

My mother is an immigrant from Korea who has worked as a janitor in a hospital and waitress in a Korean restaurant. My father is a white guy from a small town in Tennessee who has been a soldier and…

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Categories: Race

[Click here to see all posts in this conversation on New Monastics and race.]

I’ve been following the recent online conversation about racial reconciliation and the New Monastics rather closely. Why? Because it is a conversation whose time has come.  I honestly believe that [...]

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Categories: Race

[see all posts in this conversation on New Monastics and race.]

 

Las Caras Lindas de mi Gente Negra,
Son un desfile de melaza en flor,
Que cuando pasan frente a mi se alegra,
De su negrura todo el corazón 

-Tite Curet Alonso

I was delighted to be asked to participate in this conversation, even though I am not a leader or spokesperson for the New Monastic movement.  I am using the…

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Categories: Race

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