Category: Prejudice

How We Emerge

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Racism, prejudice and stereotypes are a problem. Most, if not all persons, would agree that they produce more conflicts than resolutions, offer more questions than answers. We need only watch the evening news or visit a news website to hear about yet another incident of violence incited by race.  But, no matter how many times […]

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Confessing Our Prejudices

.Reading time 5 minutes.

“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.” ~ Matthew 7.1-2, New Revised Standard Version There are some things that we don’t want to pray about, that we choose not to enter […]

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The Habits We Inherit

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I am beginning to develop spiritual practices, habits that I hope that will serve me well in my relationship with Jesus Christ. They are often referred to as disciplines and my first task is to understand what it means to be a disciple. I have an understanding but it is not my own. I want […]

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What Race Doesn’t Know

.Reading time 4 minutes.

“So, what are you?” This is one of the most absurd and honestly, useless questions that I have ever heard asked while in conversation. The person posing the question has looked at you and is unable to determine your “race” based on your physical characteristics and subsequently, your economic class and social worth. In a matter […]

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