Pilgrim March
Thoughts on Life as a Spiritual Journey
Racism
Are These People Angry?
As I mentioned in a previous post, I recently returned from a trip our denomination runs called Journey to Mosaic. It’s a sort of racial reconciliation trip designed to facilitate conversation about racism in our denomination. One of the many highlights from the trip was a tour of Oakland we received by one of the [...]
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Journey to Mosaic — Where has my Dad Gone?
“He left for work in the morning and never returned. We didn’t know what happened to him. I called friends and then I called his co-workers. Only later did I discover that he had been pulled over on the highway and arrested. He doesn’t have a drivers’ license — he can’t get one because he’s [...]
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Immigration Reform and Jesus
Over the last few years, the number of immigrants coming to the United States from Mexico has become an increasingly contentious political issue. Politicians have flirted with comprehensive immigration reform at times, but the explosive nature of the issue in the public’s mind has mostly kept politicians from doing anything substantial at a Federal level. [...]
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MLK Holiday Breakfast
We went to the MLK Holiday Breakfast this past Monday. This was the 20th year of the event, and this year’s speaker was the Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery. The 88-year-old Dr. Lowery has been a pillar in the civil rights movement, a friend of Dr. King, and he delivered the Benediction at President Obama’s Inauguration. I [...]
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A Parable on Race
One of the biggest mistakes white evangelicals make when thinking or talking about race is to assume that it is a personal issue. We often think that because we don’t believe people of color are inferior to white people that we aren’t racist. We believe that racism is a personal sin issue that should be [...]
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‘The Racist’ as the Identified Patient
I blogged about the controversy surrounding the deadlyvipers.org site a couple of days ago. There has been a lot of good commentary (here for example), and I’ve learned a bit more about the nature of racism through this process. As I watched the drama unfold, first with Soong-Chan pointing out the DV site on twitter, [...]
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Deadly Vipers and Acceptable Racism
There’s a whirlwind of blog commentary over the marketing strategy employed by Zondervan and on display over at deadlyvipers.org. So much as been written, I’ll just share two links, and a quote. Soong Chan Rah’s Blog Eugene Cho’s post Here’s a quote from Eugene’s blog that sums it up for me: Folks may think the [...]
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Personal Reflections on Power and Privilege
The following is an excerpt from a recent ordination paper that I wrote which sought to answer the following question: Explain the effect of power and privilege in areas of race, economic class and gender upon your life and ministry. If racism is a “system of advantage based on race,” (Tatum, Beverly Why are all the [...]
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Seeing Faith Through the Eyes of Others
My article on authority in the Evangelical church, which is reposted here from its original post on patheos, a website for interfaith dialogue. My article was a part of the Evangelical perspective answering the question “Who Speaks for Us?“ Early in my Christian experience I spent some time at a church that would have been [...]
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The Next Evangelicalism Conference
Talking about being multi-ethnic is so much more fun than actually being multi-ethnic. I thoroughly enjoyed the conference today on Evangelicalism’s multi-ethnic future. There were some great talks given, and a compelling case was made for a multi-cultural Evangelicalism. From a biblical, sociological, and statistical point of view, the speakers persuasively argued that Evangelicalism must [...]
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