Category: Race and Faith

Einstein On Race Prejudice

.Reading time 5 minutes.

Q: Do you feel that race prejudice in the United States is merely a symptom of a world-wide conflict? A: Race prejudice has unfortunately become an American tradition which is uncritically handed down from one generation to the next. The only remedies are enlightenment and education.  This is a slow and painstaking process in which […]

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Becoming New: Racial Formation and Baptismal Identity

.Reading time 4 minutes.

“What are we to do with a church that speaks to people on the basis of their gender or race, all the while baptizing them on the basis of Galatians 3.28?” “In baptism, the text becomes Scripture for us, canon, laid on us as a new story that illumines our stories. In baptism, we are […]

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Change Your Story

.Reading time 7 minutes.

“Then certain individuals came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, ‘Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.’ And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to […]

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