I resist the racist interpretation of everything conservative for a few reasons. 1. Reductionism First, it’s a sloppy reductionist approach to a complex issue. We know that conservatives and president Trump object to specific ideologies like Islam that have little to do with race. Even...
This past weekend I watched the film The Birth of a Nation – here’s the summary: Set against the antebellum South, THE BIRTH OF A NATION follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), accepts...
Or do I? A friend of mine posted an image with the left half and bottom of this image. I provided the right column. We should listen to one another.
My left-leaning evangelical friends often chide me as being uncaring and unbiblical when I resist increased taxes for social welfare programs. They believe that they have Biblical and intellectual reasons to take their position, but I think they actually do not, and are violating biblical...
In my previous post, I discussed the three levels of accusation regarding the guilt of white people in white privilege, and how I find only the mildest of these of any merit. I also alluded to the fact that the problems of black community, which...
Over the last few days, I’ve had a heated discussion with a pastor friend of mine about ‘white privilege,’ which, if you don’t know, can be defined something like this: A term for societal privileges that benefit white people in western countries beyond what is...
What does the Bible say about our relationship to work, and do those same scriptures also clearly approve or condemn slavery? My main thesis is that the household codes that discuss the obedience of servants to masters, in the Roman context, is primarily addressed to the majority...
With the upcoming Sesquicentennial (150 years) of the Civil War, a lot of discussion is occurring around racism in America, as well as the role of religion and politics in the making and unmaking of slavery and racism in America. Here’s two really good resources,...
