Category: Race and Christian Identity

More Jesus, Less Race

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“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.” ~ Elbert Hubbard “We have all become like one who is unclean and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth.  We all fade like a leaf and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.” ~ Isaiah 64.6, NRSV You […]

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The Abolitionists

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A new three part PBS series, The Abolitionists, will premiere today (Jan.8) and highlight the role of faith in the anti- slavery convictions of American abolitionists. Resources Religion News Series, “PBS series depicts American abolitionists as fired by faith” PBS, American Experience: The Abolitionists (a video)

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A freedom that does not enslave us

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“Whom the Son sets free is free indeed.” ~ John 8.36 Issued on January 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln, today marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.  But, despite what was written on these sheets of paper and proclaimed from the mouth of one of this nation’s political leaders and […]

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Let’s Bow Our Heads and Segregate

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“There is another thing that disturbs me to no end about the American church. You have a white church and you have a Negro church. You have allowed segregation to creep into the doors of the church. How can such a division exist in the true Body of Christ? You must face the tragic fact […]

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Race and the Irresponsible Self

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Race allows you and I to look away, to not look at ourselves fully or completely.  We do not have to face ourselves alone and a part from its insecurities that make us feel safe.  We want race to tell us what we see and who/ what/ when/ where/ why we should ignore.  We need race to do for us […]

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