The curse of Ham or the Hamitic curse was often employed by American southerners to justify the enslavement of African people. They argued that Africans were enslaved because it was God’s will and they were just playing their role in God’s judgment against this people group. This erroneous interpretation of sacred Scripture would also be […]
Oliver Burkeman’s recent blog post, “You’re probably more racist and sexist than you think,” suggests that many of us are actually more prejudiced than we might know, pointing out that it is indicated not by observable behavior but “flourishes below the level of conscious thought.”
As we know, the belief in race and the practice of racism is not limited to the United States. While Greece is known as the world’s first democracy, it seems as if some of its citizens want to be known for something else: hatred. Filmmaker Konstantinos Georgousis captures racist speech, beliefs and practices of a Greek political party […]
No matter our understanding or interpretation of what it means to be made in God’s image, whether the meaning be that we share a physical resemblance, serve as God’s representative on earth and/ or possess spiritual and/ or mental faculties similar to that of our Creator, all of humanity bears God’s image. The eyes of […]
According to Cobb and Baylor University sociologists Kevin Dougherty, Ph.D. and Jerry Z. Park, Ph.D. and doctoral candidate Samuel Perry of the University of Chicago’s sociology department who presented their findings in New York City at the 75th annual meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion say, “Congregation size shapes view of racial inequality.”