Category: Race

Before You Say I Do

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Apparently, at the the First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, which is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, the members (at least five or six of them) need to know what race you are.  In the church’s 150 year history, there has never been an African American couple to wed there and that won’t change– at least […]

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Not So Different After All

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A recent article about President Obama’s relation to America’s first African slave through his mother’s lineage reminds us that people are not as they appear and that we cannot judge persons by the social coloring of skin. We are not as disconnected or as different as race would have us to believe.

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Color of the Cross

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“For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.  He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity; and […]

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According to Screwtape: How Race Became Our Religion

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In C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, I find a truth within the seventh letter from Screwtape, a senior tempter/ devil to his nephew, Wormwood.  Taking heed to the warning and reminder that Lewis places in the preface: “Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar,” if I err it is for the sake of undermining the […]

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Are you a neighbor?

.Reading time 5 minutes.

“Solidarity challenges any tendency to establish a relational identity by identifying exclusively with a finite community.  If we overidentify with one community, even a particular church, we tend to become defensive about rival communities.  This misplaced devotion leads to inner division and social defensiveness.  When a finite community becomes the exclusive source of value and […]

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