What troubled me most was the unmistakable presence of Christian symbols in the sea of law-abiding protestors, law-breaking rioters, and treasonous insurrectionists. Crosses and Jesus flags mixed freely with Trump banners and Confederate flags. They raise deep questions about what it means to be a follower of Christ in our deeply divided country.
Let us not value a false peace over a righteous justice.
On May 10, my daughters showed me Childish Gambino’s (Donald Glover’s) deeply disturbing Youtube sensation “This is America.” That evening, a department store in a suburban Knoxville shopping mall banned one of my dearest friends. His crime? Shopping while black.…
If white evangelicals wish to be reconciled with people of color, then they should confess precisely how they have been possessed by something other than the faith they proclaim, irrespective of the repercussions that will befall the penitent and their structures of power.
My last name and appearance immediately instills a set of biases before I have the chance to open my mouth. The professor’s “blue pen was the catalyst that opened an ocean of self-doubt that I worked so hard to destroy.
The First Great Awakening was one of the few times in American history when the church actually led the way in racial unity.
Efrem Smith and Gary David Stratton provided black and white perspectives on Unity and Reconciliation in the body of Christ in Johnson University’s kickoff to Black History Month.
As anger over race relations leads to rallies, sit-ins and several prominent resignations of administrators, experts consider the messages, the tactics and the backlash. Four opinions.
It’s relatively easy to see the suffering Christ in black men who are already dead and aren’t threatening to hurt anyone. But can you see the suffering Christ in violent responses to injustice? Can you see the cross in the Molotov cocktail?