Tag: race and the Christian faith

What Race Cannot Answer

.Reading time 3 minutes.

“I am beige, brown, black, red, yellow, white.”   What do we mean when we define ourselves by the social coloring of skin?  Because calling yourself a color will not answer who you are.  And the social construct of race does not tell us who or why we are but what we are– colored people.  More it […]

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I Do Not Identify With Race

.Reading time 5 minutes.

I am not recognized in, by or through race and I do not want to be associated with others based on the social coloring of my skin. But, I want to be identified by my Christian confession, my Christian witness. If there would be a general group that I would be included in, I would want […]

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Hardened Hearts: How Race Makes Us Emotionless

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Harden. The word only appears twelve times throughout the entire Bible. Of the three times that it is recorded in the New Testament, all are found in the book of Hebrews (3.8,15; 4.7) and the writer is quoting a verse of Psalm 95. The rest are recorded in the Old Testament, the majority of which are the Lord’s […]

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