Virgilio P. Elizondo: Diversity is a sign of the new creation
A pioneer of mestizo theology uses the image of Jesus crossing borders to illustrate a spirituality of redemptive inclusion.
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Reconciliation on campus
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is a rare model of a large institution that has woven racial reconciliation into its DNA, despite the fact that trying to achieve this goal can be messy and discouraging.
Gerardo Marti: Diversely Emerging
The print and blog war between the Multiracial Church Movement and the Emerging Church Movement is a battle for the future of Christianity
Small acts, great transformations
As the lives of André Trocmé and Nelson Mandela readily show, transformational leadership begins with small acts of goodness and basic human decency, writes Jason Byassee.
Paride Taban: Voice of the voiceless
The Sudanese bishop emeritus expresses hope that “the eyes of the government, the church and the international community can be brought to the dying people through the [Kuron] peace village.”
Mark Gornik: I'm a believer in institutions
The founder of City Seminary came to New York to plant a church and ended up studying the city’s African churches. It gave him a new way of seeing Christianity.
Daniel Deng Bul Yak: What is peace?
The archbishop of Sudan describes his vision. He says his responsibility as a Christian leader is to help build a “trusted peace” in a nation wracked by war.
Leadership in a time of war
One of the hallmarks of the Most Rev. Dr. Daniel Deng Bul Yak’s remarkable leadership in southern Sudan is a commitment to education, both his own and others’, says Duke Divinity professor Ellen F. Davis.
Jin S. Kim: People are dying for community
How did the Church of All Nations achieve diversity without talking about diversity? By talking instead about the need for racial reconciliation. And through honesty in marriage. And lots of Korean food.
Cathleen Colon-Emeric, a Sunday School teacher at Reconciliation UMC in Durham, N.C., sings with Claudia and Tamara Macareno. Lissa Gotwals
Welcoming immigrants
American churches are growing more ethnically diverse, a new study shows. More recent immigrants are members of predominantly white churches, but truly multicultural congregations are still rare.