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“Gendron said he was not a Christian, but does ‘believe in and practice many Christian values.’ We reached out to Samuel Perry….co-author of several books on White Christian Nationalism ….
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We Need a Better Approach to Race Conversations
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“As a black pastor trained in a conservative evangelical school, I have been grieved to watch my white fellow pastors debate each other and divide over racial issues….Into this fray enters George Yancey with his new book, Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism.” - TGC
Peter and the Echo Chamber
Acts 10 is a bit of a puzzle, because God gives us a beautiful missionary story … and a missionary who isn’t very enthusiastic! Peter does not want to be at Cornelius’ home―he makes that clear in the rudest way possible. What’s the deal? We can begin to understand if we begin a little closer to home, in a galaxy not so far away, where we have a similar problem but a different date.
Should I Still Read Jonathan Edwards?
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“We don’t have to abstract Edwards as ‘a man of his times’ or retreat to what we don’t know. We should instead critique him when he clearly gets things wrong. His lifelong commitment to race-based slavery is clearly one such instance.” - TGC
Barna Research: How Practicing Christians View Race’s Impact on Their Lives
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“This article features recent data from Beyond Diversity, a study conducted in partnership with Dr. Michael O. Emerson and the Racial Justice and Unity Center, exploring whether or not practicing Christians from various racial backgrounds think their race offers them an advantage in life, as well as how they feel when the term “white privilege” is mentioned.” - Barna
Tim Keller: What the Biblical View of Justice Shows Us About Racism
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“Is responsibility for sin individual or is it corporate? It’s both, argues pastor and author Timothy Keller in his article, ‘Justice in the Bible.’ This means, therefore, that we must address racism as an individual and a systemic problem.” - C.Leaders
Systemic Racism: “How can we be innocent when guilt is embedded into our history?”
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“How can we wash our hands of the rotten fruit still being harvested while we enjoy the gain and spoils accumulated via the efforts of a program of dehumanization that is generational in its span? Time has ontological weight and events in our nation’s time hang guiltily around our collective neck.” - John Ellis
Racism Is Real. But Is “Systemic Racism”? That Time I Was Published by Newsweek—For Two Hours
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“Hypersensitivity about ‘systemic racism’ has many people, of every race, hesitating about being honest about what they think. But honesty and forthright argument are the only antidotes to the fear many people feel, and the only road ahead to racial justice. I expect ad hominem responses to the essay that follows, or willful misunderstandings of its argument….But only good arguments—not silent cowering—can defeat bad ones.
On the Use and Abuse of Critical Race Theory in American Christianity
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“…as practiced, it quite often creates a virtual irrebuttable starting presumption that ‘existing power structures’ can be accurately analyzed primarily (or sometimes exclusively) through the prism of race. The end result, ironically enough, is both reductive and complex.” - The Dispatch
Why Race Relations Don’t Improve
We might have every reason to expect, given the extraordinary attention directed to this issue, that race relations would be improving in America. But instead, they seem to be getting worse. Why are race relations not improving?
