The Question of Race

and the Christian Response: One New Humanity in Jesus

Public Survey/Display

Race - What's the Problem? (and instructions)

Race - What's the Problem? brochure form

Is Religion Just a Cultural Thing? (and instructions)

 

The Question of Race and the Christian Response: One New Humanity in Jesus

Human Dignity: Does Every Individual Matter?

God as the Foundation of Human Rights (Genesis 1 - 11)

Israel as a Non-Ethnic, Non-Racial People, or: Does the Color of Jesus' Skin Matter?

Jesus as Anti-Racist, Anti-Nationalist Revolutionary (Matthew 22:1 - 14)

Paul as Anti-Imperialist Missionary (Galatians 1 - 2)

The Church as the Community of Reconciled Enemies (Ephesians 2:11 - 22)

The Role of Jesus in Revolution and the Pursuit of Justice

What Role Has Jesus Played in Asia and Asian-America?

Engaging the Racial and Class Implications of the U.S. Public School System 

 

Personal and Practical: Embracing Jesus' Transformation of You

Ethnicity, Culture, and Christian Faith:  A Paradigm and a Questionnaire

Race:  Can Faith Help? - Has Christian Multiculturalism Failed? (1 Corinthians 9:19 - 22)

Race:  Can Faith Help? - Learning to See Oppression (Intro to Luke 19:1 - 10)

Race:  Can Faith Help? - Racism, Wealth, and Power (Luke 19:1 - 10)

Race:  Can Faith Help? - Jesus' One New Humanity (Ephesians 2:14 - 16)

Jesus Trains the Disciples in Cross-Cultural Mission (Matthew 14 - 18)

The Best of Both Worlds (reflections on parenting, faith, and cultures)

 

Faiths, Racism, and Slavery:  A Comparative View

Slavery in Christianity, Part 1:  Slavery in the Bible, Slavery Today (and ppt)

Slavery in Christianity, Part 2:  Abolitionism from the First to Fifteenth Century

Slavery in Islam: From the Seventh to Twenty First Century

Slavery in Christianity, Part 3:  Slavery in the Americas and Abolition Worldwide

Why Question Atheism from a Political and Moral Perspective?

 

Christian Resources

* Michael Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided by Faith

* J. Kameron Carter, Race: A Theological Account

* Willie James Jennings, The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race

* Rick Richardson and Brenda Salter-McNeil, The Heart of Racial Justice

  

Academic Resources:  Race and Racism Today

* The Racial Gap Increases Fourfold, Institute on Assets and Policy at Brandeis, May 2010

* The U.S. Income Gap Triples, 1979 - 2007

* The U.S. Income Gap Highest Ever: Boston Globe, Sep 28, 2010

* Jonathan Kozol, Shame of the Nation: Restoring Apartheid Schooling in America

* Donna Franklin, Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family

* Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates, The Future of the Race

* Orlando Patterson, The Ordeal of Integration

* Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

* Theodore Allen, The Invention of the White Race

* Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White

* Christopher Lasch, The Agony of the American Left

* Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

* Ron Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore

* Gaston Espinosa, Virgilio Elizondo, and Jesse Miranda, Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the U.S. 

 

Academic Resources:  Racism and Slavery

* Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery

* Murray Gordon, Slavery in the Arab World

* Seymour Drescher, Capitalism and Antislavery

* Gavin Wright, Slavery and American Agricultural History

  

If Christian Faith is Universal, Why Have a Chosen People?

Why Did God Choose a "Chosen People"?  Why Not Just Skip Right to Jesus? (one document)

* Reason #1: To Be a Microcosm of All Humanity, Not a Race or Ethnicity

* Reason #2: To Live by God's Word and Hope for a Happy Ending

* Reason #3: To Diagnose the Evil Internal to Human Nature

* Reason #4: To Suffer on Behalf of the World

* Reason #5: To Document the Diagnosis

* Reason #6: To Anticipate God's Dwelling Within People

* Reason #7: To Oppose Pagan Temple Systems and Glimpse the Trinity

* Reason #8: To Anticipate the Messiah and His Mission

The Troubling Acts of God:  Noah's Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Egyptian Firstborn, and the Canaanites

Does the Bible Have Evidence of God's Design?  A Sociological Glance at the Torah

 

   

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