Tag: Amos 3.3

Why talking about race remains a touchy subject

.Reading time 6 minutes.

We talk about race all the time.  It is the thought that is on the forefront of our minds and the word that is on the tip of our tongues.  When something bad happens, we say, “Race did it.”  When something bad happens, we say, “Race did it.”  According to our conversations and life’s aspirations, […]

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What Kind of Christian is a Racist?

.Reading time 3 minutes.

You call yourself a Christian.  Well, how can you be a Christian and … It is so easy to ask this question of others.  We are good at observing and judging the behavior, sitting in the bleachers of life pointing out the mistakes of others and what we would have done if we were in […]

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Stepping Out of the Shadows of Race

.Reading time 7 minutes.

“This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.  If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true; but if we walk in […]

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Afraid of who we will become

.Reading time 7 minutes.

“For in him, we live, move and have our being.” ~ The Acts of the Apostles 17.28 Why is race so successful?  Why is it so convincing, so engrained, so entrenched in who we are?  Why is it so difficult to dig it up and to root it out of us?  Why do we have such a […]

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