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...]