Many people, including Christians, seem to be obsessed with race and racial categories. Rather than learning from the past, we seem to be re-emphasizing the old racial categories in a new way. Surely we can do better?
Category: Racism
Gospel and Race 2: confronting injustice
In my previous post, we saw how in Genesis 3 human beings disobeyed God and now sin and selfishness has been our reality ever since. Things in our world are not as they ought to be. Sin, death, disease, racism, anger and immorality taint our world and our history. We’ve seen the terrible effects of… Continue reading Gospel and Race 2: confronting injustice
Gospel and race: one humanity
I don’t know why, but every time I go shopping I always choose the trolley with the dodgy, squeaky, sticky wheel that keeps veering to the right or to the left. It’s quite a job to keep the trolley moving forward in a straight line. In a similar way, it’s tough to keep having a… Continue reading Gospel and race: one humanity
The Bible and racism (updated)
Years ago, in South Africa, you were classified according to the colour of your skin and the coarseness of your hair. You were told where you could and couldn’t live. You were told which bus you could and couldn’t ride. You we told who you could and couldn’t marry. Racism is part of our history. South… Continue reading The Bible and racism (updated)
Multi-colour churches and the defeat of racism
I often get very discouraged by the racist views expressed on so many news and social media sites. It seems that some (sad) people are hell-bent in making any and every issue about the amount of pigmentation of another’s skin. Sadly racism is also sometimes seen in the church; this was especially true of the… Continue reading Multi-colour churches and the defeat of racism