In one Thursday afternoon in August after a drive from Grand Rapids to Chicago I boarded a bus with about 40 other people and started out on my first Sankofa journey. Sankofa (looking back to move forward) is a bus tour of several civil rights [...]
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Today I got the chance to here Alan Hirsch talk at Grand Rapid Theological Seminary. These folks are constantly bringing some good people into town to stimulate conversation all across the theological spectrum of thought. This is a good thing. No they aren’t paying me to say that.
Now on to Hirsch. I read the shaping [...]
Recently i discovered a voice in the emergent conversation that I was not aware of, melvin bray.
His bio reads
I am a professional speaker and aspiring author. I am contributing the chapter “Reading the Prophets for Justice: How can we read the prophets to learn justice?” to An Emergent Manifesto of Justice [Baker Publishing: Emersion Books, [...]
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Several years ago I sat in a worship gathering with Sally Morganthaler as someone from the Ionia Community lead the gathered body in some “worship songs of diversity” from Africa. At one point Morganthaler asked me where is the hip hop music? The Anglo church including some of my friends in the emerging church and [...]
For a new voice in the conversation check out the Inclusion Café a friend of mine, fellow Jesus follower and diversity trainer Steve Robbins has launched this site social/professional networking web site for those pursuing diversity and an end to racism and unintentional intolerance in a sector of society.
I want to encourage those of us in [...]
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Recently person whose church hired an African American pastor to ”help” them reach out to diverse community was distressed to learn that the pastor was frustrated by the lack of awareness in the mostly white church about what was happening in Jena. There was a a real question as to how to get the members of this church to become [...]
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OK everywhere you look it seems there are nooses being hung. First Jena then a long Island police station, then the door of a Columbia university professor. Note that two of these are in the north where it is suggested racism is long gone. SO why aren’t more Christians talking it about. I don’t know [...]
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I came across this interesting story about the ongoing legacy of the church colonial paradigm.
It is just amazing that because of the western missionary values an African women sees a white dress and veil as the ideal for her marriage.
Although priestesses still control the island’s relationship with the spirit world, their clout is waning, as churches [...]
Warning this may sound like a rant to some, read on if you care.
I am beginning to sound like a broken record but I am amazed at how many Christians in the blogosphere are playing down the Michael Richards tirade. Here is just a sampling
he apologized get over it, and I’m tired of being outraged besides he’s [...]
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