Christopher Emdin Questions the American Image

Christopher Emdin of The Huffington Post discusses the problems with the American image, the “American dream” and the “American way” in light of the recent murders at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin and links it to the Trayvon Martin case in “Turbans, Hoodies and Misdirected Microaggression.”  So, to be American means to be made in whose image?

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Race and the Lie of the Self- Made Person

“It is he who made us and not we ourselves.” ~Psalm 100.3 There are no self- made persons.  We, as human beings, do not have that ability neither will we ever develop it.  This capacity to be self- existent, to have one’s origin be one’s own hands can only be attributed to God.  While this […]

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Mississippi Church Offers Apology

The members of First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs, Mississippi who recently drew cultural scrutiny of their Christian witness after preventing an African American couple from wedding at the church has offered an apology and asked for forgiveness.  Dean of the School of Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, Russell D. Moore said […]

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Five Lies Christians Believe About Race

“My friends, if anyone is detected in a transgression you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in the spirit of gentleness.  Take care that you yourselves are not tempted.  Bear one another’s burdens and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. For if those who are nothing think […]

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If the ‘white’ man wrote the Bible

I am not certain when or from whom this belief originates or what makes it true.  But, I have heard it expressed by persons without theological training or even remote interest in the subject, who I believe have neither read the Bible in its entirety nor do they wish to.  However, I think they would […]

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