Soon I’ll be seventy years old. My decades as a Christian activist have taught me valuable lessons about protesting injustice. I’ve had to learn a lot of these things the hard way, but I've boiled a handful of “lessons” down to eleven common-sense and overlapping principles of protest, some of which are adapted from my book Free at Last?—all of which are based on familiar … [Read more...]
How to care for victims of racism
An interview with Jerome Gay Jr. and James Roberson Racism is the oppression of a group of people for the preservation of another group of people. Whether systemic or subtle, racism robs its victims of security, dignity, worth. Either a pastor’s response will help those affected to wade through the resulting feelings of anger and frustration in a God-honoring way, or … [Read more...]
Why pastors should care about racism
Due to the politicizing of race in our media, the Christian community can tend to disregard the existence of racism. Tim Keller describes the indifference that some experience by stating some conservatives give “lip service to racism being a sin but they associate any sustained denunciation of racism with the liberal or secular systems of thought.”1 Some conservative … [Read more...]
Will your church be able to help when trouble comes?
Disasters are on the rise, and as a result there are a lot of hurting people caught in the aftermath. Imagine for a moment that a disaster came through your community in the middle of a record heat wave or freezing temperatures and destroyed homes and power. Would your church be able to help those in your community? Many may think of large relief organizations or … [Read more...]
10 losses of trauma victims
Most of the losses that come with trauma are not tangible. Rarely do the people in your church have scars or missing limbs that would provide evidence to others of the trauma they faced. It can be argued both ways whether these physical marks would make the experience of trauma easier or harder. Either way, the majority of losses related to trauma do not have indicators that … [Read more...]
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