Christina Cleveland on Why Jesus’ Skin Color Matters

Professor Christina Cleveland, the first Associate Professor of the Practice of Reconciliation at Duke University’s Divinity School and the author of Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart presents a powerful reminder and a necessary challenge to those of us who would see Jesus as socially colored white.  While it is not […]

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Hope and ‘Intractable Racism’

Christianity Today contributor Mark Galli writes about race and the gifts that the church brings to the conversation in an article titled “Hope in the Face of Intractable Racism.”  Gall questions doubts we will ever be done with racism, challenging laws that intend to “eradicate all forms of racism” and suggesting that it will take more […]

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Who’s hiring?: Race’s Resume

Race Address: Our minds   Education                 All the fields of inquiry have associated themselves with me, attempting to prove my origin, determine my purpose and influence   Objective                   To further the social gospel of race or the belief that some human beings, based on the social coloring of skin and […]

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On this National Day of Prayer

On this National Day of Prayer, I am thinking about the hands that I may never hold, not because I am not reaching out but because the person that I am reaching for does not like its social coloring.  We pray to the same God but we may never pray together.  As siblings, we ask […]

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This Is Not A Spectator Sport

I am often dumbfounded at the number of persons who live their lives as if mere spectators. They talk about their lives as if they are not active participants but onlookers, as if narrators instead of characters. They share their experiences with race, racism and prejudice as if to say, “Do you see what racism […]

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