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Review: Heal Us, Emmanuel: A Call for Racial Reconciliation, Representation, and Unity in the Church

Heal Us, Emmanuel: A Call for Racial Reconciliation, Representation, and Unity in the Church, edited by Doug Serven. Oklahoma City, OK: White Blackbird Books, 2016. 326 pp. Racial discrimination and injustice are predictably tense topics and sensitive public discussion areas. During the…

Derryck GreenOctober 21, 2016

Culture Race

Black Lives Matter Isn’t a Civil Rights Movement

Last week, during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas in response to the police shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota, no one expected the demonstration would end with someone shooting five police officers dead…

Derryck GreenAugust 19, 2016

Race

Poll: More Americans Lose Faith in Religion Solving Social Problems

Recent polling shows fewer Americans are putting their faith in religion’s influence to help solve America’s social problems. Earlier in our nation’s history, religious leaders and institutions were prominent and instrumental in confronting important cultural and civic issues like slavery…

Derryck GreenJuly 25, 2016

Culture Race

Jesse Williams, the #BETawards and Self-Congratulatory, Blame-Whitey Victimology

What would an awards show be without a black award recipient taking the time to energize the viewing audience by basking in the collective black identity of being the perennial victim of anti-black racism? Possibly an awards show actually worth…

Derryck GreenJune 30, 2016

Race Religion

Facts Don’t Care about Feelings in Painful Race Realities

Christian blogger Nicola A. Menzie is the proprietor of Faithfully Magazine. This website seeks to “capture, curate, and contribute to conversations about the intersection of race, culture, and Christianity.” According to Menzie, her website exists because, as she says, “Contrary…

Derryck GreenApril 29, 2016

Faith Race

Blogger Condemns Racist “Settler” Christians

Evangelicals for Social Action (ESA) – a progressive Christian (definitely in that order) organization that wants to apply the Christian gospel to "social justice" issues – recently posted a blog that demonstrates that ESA is more concerned with "social action"…

Derryck GreenApril 7, 2016

Race Religion

“Anablacktivism” and the Racial Grievance Industry

Last week, Evangelicals for Social Action sent out a tweet in support of Drew G.I. Hart’s website that has as its tagline Anablacktivism, which is an amalgamation of Anabaptism, black theology, and activism. The specific entry the tweet highlights are “Black-on-Black…

Derryck GreenMarch 30, 2016

Race

Race, Privilege and the Doctrine of Discovery

Mark Charles, a Christian blogger who recently wrote of how a spiritually profound experience at InterVarsity’s Urbana 15 Missions Conference influenced his decision to forgo communion, has commented on the trials and tribulations he’s encountered in his mission to raise awareness of…

Derryck GreenMarch 23, 2016

Race

Jim Wallis Discusses Reparations

As part of the promotional tour for his new book, America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America, Jim Wallis interviewed with Religion News Service (RNS) to discuss the content and thesis of his book.…

Derryck GreenFebruary 22, 2016

Politics Race Religion

InterVarsity Seduced by #BlackLivesMatter, Compartmentalized “Justice”

Despite the contradiction between its activist agenda and what the name of the organization (and hashtag) superficially implies, the social current of #BlackLivesMatter has successfully swallowed many churches and Christian organizations in its supposed quest for racial and social “justice.”…

Derryck GreenJanuary 4, 2016

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