Category: Politics and Christian Witness

The Contested Color of Christ

.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey detail in The Chronicle Review how the image of Jesus has been made and remade in American history, contrasting the socially colored black Jesus with short hair portrayed in now historic 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama with that of a replica of Christus, an eleven foot high chiseled […]

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What Will Not Change No Matter Who Wins the Election

.Reading time 4 minutes.

This is an election year.  As a result, there is an abundance of political and might I add propagandizing messages to be heard.  These messages and their soundbites are everywhere.  Turn on your television and you are presented with the latest poll as to who is in the lead or who has fallen behind, whose campaign has raised […]

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