Tag: Psalm 139.14

Race and Reason

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“We have a faith that forces you to reason about what makes us who we are. … In truth, we are never quite sure what we believe until some one gets it wrong.” ~ Stanley Hauerwas, Without Apology: Sermons for Christ’s Church ” Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen.” ~ Robert […]

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How believing in race lowers our self- esteem

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“I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” ~ Psalm 139.14, NRSV “I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!     Body and soul, I am marvelously made!” ~ Psalm 139.14, The Message Our belief in race makes us dependent.  It teaches us to prop our selves up on our appearance and the judgments that persons […]

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There’s no such thing

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There is no such thing as a good or true stereotype.   A stereotype is “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.”  It is “an image perpetuated without change” that may or may not be based in an actual experience.  It is a “solid […]

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