Congregation size shapes view of racial inequality, Baylor study shows

According to Cobb and Baylor University sociologists Kevin Dougherty, Ph.D. and Jerry Z. Park, Ph.D. and doctoral candidate Samuel Perry of the University of Chicago’s sociology department who presented their findings in New York City at the 75th annual meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion say, “Congregation size shapes view of racial inequality.”

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Race Fact #31: The ‘race’ of Adam and Eve

“Adam and Eve are not Hebrews or Egyptians or Canaanites.  It is incorrect for the White Church to view them as White or for the Black Church to view them as Black.  Their ‘race’ is not identifiable; they are neither Negroid nor Caucasian, nor even Semitic.  They become the mother and father of all peoples. […]

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Black Disadvantage: Unpacking the Obvious Baggage of Blackness

Privilege  (syn.): “honor, freedom, favor, pleasure, right, benefit, advantage, opportunity, license, joy, treat” Disadvantage (syn.): hindrance, inconvenience, drawback, difficulty, demerit, weakness, shortcoming, trouble, burden, hardship, nuisance, minus, handicap” Though shared at family gatherings along with secrets for surviving it, detailed in personal narratives and recorded in historical renderings of the hardships of believing in the […]

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Race Fact #30: A Special Race

“The Bible does not begin with a special race of people.  When the first human is introduced into the story, he is simply called adam, which means humankind.” ~ J. Daniel Hays, From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race, 47

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Race Fact #28: Nations Not Races

The Bible lists the nations that descended from Noah– not races (Genesis 10).  God divides humanity into nations; we have divided ourselves into races.

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