Tag: Acts 17.26

Race: The gospel according to our flesh

.Reading time 5 minutes.

What did he look like?  What culture does he represent?  Forget the nails, let me see the social coloring of his skin?  Yes, I will accept him; he can come in now.  Because Jesus has to be one of us.  We have flipped the expectation and it does not matter our personal relationship with him.  […]

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There is not one race

.Reading time 2 minutes.

“From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth…” ~ The Acts of the Apostles 17.26, NRSV “There is only one race: the human race.”  The thought has been attributed to several people so I deduce that the author is unknown (at least to me).  Still, the sentiment is repeated for reasons […]

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