This is a talk I gave at my church’s annual Faith & Race conference. You can check out the video as well as the talks from the other speakers over on Quest’s website.
I’m going to be talking for the next few minutes about something called White Privilege and asking the question “now what?”. What can [...]
Tags: race & ethnicity · theology
Isaac posted a sermon a while ago on “invisible enemies.” In it he discusses Eph. 6:12:
our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms
Like Isaac points out, it sounds a [...]
Tags: race & ethnicity · theology
Recently a couple of articles, one about DNA pioneer Dr. Watson getting suspended for tying race and intelligence together and another about renewed opposition to school integration, are evidence that “race” as a valid concept is alive and well. So, it seems worth saying what’s been said may times before: race is a myth, [...]
Tags: race & ethnicity · science
In a few days we’re hosting the annual faith and race conference at Quest. One of the ways I’m involved is in looking at how a few stories in Scripture relate to that theme. As I’ve been preparing it’s struck me just how often the issue of ethnicity comes up—there’s hardly a [...]
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