Joel Perez: God intended there to be color
Colleges and universities -- particularly faith-based institutions -- must work toward diversity in enrollment, hiring and curriculum, says an administrator at George Fox University.
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William Lowrey: Don't lose the larger vision
A Presbyterian minister who helped resolve bloody conflicts in Sudan reflects on his long career of peacemaking in America and Africa.
Stephen R. Haynes: Memphis 'kneel-ins' tested churches
The 1960s campaign to integrate churches needs to be remembered and re-examined, says the author of “The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation.”
Charlene Brown: Impatiently waiting
The search for a church committed to racial reconciliation didn’t go quickly. But the waiting for it, like the waiting of Advent, was a time to learn to love God and neighbor and find miracles in small and surprising places.
Soong-Chan Rah: Freeing the captive church
America’s growing diversity is a key not only to church growth and evangelism but also to freeing the church from cultural captivity, says the North Park Theological Seminary professor and author.
Love made me an inventor
Maggy Barankitse survived Burundi's brutal civil war and founded Maison Shalom, an institution dedicated to saving the country's orphans and raising them in God's love.
Michael O. Emerson: Demographic revolution and the church
Demographic changes in the United States suggest that an increasing number of churches should move to the biblical model: congregations that are not racial niches but are multiracial and multiethnic.
Efrem Smith
Congregations, New forms of church, Reconciliation, Community, Racial & ethnic, Arts & Culture, Performing arts
Hip-hop mosaic
Efrem Smith uses hip-hop music in church, but it’s not a marketing gimmick. For this pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church, embracing hip-hop culture is an expression of his theology and a means of achieving the goal of his ministry: a church that’s a mosaic of all kinds of people.
Reconciliation, Racial & ethnic, Christian Leadership, Pastoral leadership, Institutional leadership
James Earl Massey: Adjusting to God
Being Christian, says a distinguished pastor and theologian, means adjusting our personhood to God’s will and becoming servants to humanity.
Gerardo Marti: A diversity of diversities
“Diversity” can mean “having some blacks attend our mostly white church.” What about the Pakistani pastor working with an Iranian congregation in the Southeast?