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Reconciliation and Organizational DNA by Alvin Sanders
Added: 04/18/12, Category: videos

“It is starts with a philosophical perspective of, ‘this is who we are as an institution’. That philosophy starts to reflect itself in the mission statement, the vision statement, policies, practices, procedures, and the things they decide to resource. It all flows from that philosophy that they have that this is part of the DNA of our institution.”

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Drivers that Motivate Faith-Based Institutions to Seek Change in the Area of Diversity by Joel Perez
Added: 04/18/12, Category: articles

“Even if an institution starts with mission and diversifies its employees and trustees, efforts cannot be sustained unless it is monitoring progress and coordinating efforts. All four institutions were not doing these things effectively. At best, each institution was just using enrollment data to monitor progress. No other data was being gathered and evaluated to determine where the gaps existed and potential strategies to decrease the gaps.”

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Being a Witness in a Multicultural City by Ravi Zacharias
Added: 04/09/12, Category: videos

Dr. Ravi Zacharias shares tips on being a witness for Christ in our increasingly multicultural cities with challenges like: “pluralism is a good things but relativism is not”, “avoid prejudging others”, and “get to know them, befriend them, be kind and gentle and wait for the right time to share the good news of the gospel.”

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Reflections on the Trayvon Martin Tragedy by Brenda Salter-McNeil
Added: 04/09/12, Category: videos

Dr. Salter-McNeil shares her reflections on the Trayvon Martin tragedy and challenges us to use it as an opportunity to grow in our ability to identify with people who are not like us and to empathize with their situation.

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Race and the Christian with Piper, Keller, & Bradley
Added: 04/09/12, Category: videos

John Piper, Tim Keller, and Anthony Bradley share their thoughts on the biblical basis for ethnic relations in the church and why Christians should be motivated to break down ethnic divisions and advocate for justice within our society.

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14: What should we do when someone makes a prejudiced comment around us?
Added: 04/04/12, Category: video posts

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18: What are some experiences you have had in regard to ethnic relations?
Added: 04/04/12, Category: video posts

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06: What are some obstacles for healthy ethnic relations on your campus or in your organization?
Added: 04/04/12, Category: video posts

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The Challenge of Diversity on Christian College Campuses by Christine Scheller
Added: 03/27/12, Category: articles

Key to Kinoshita’s 20-year tenure at Biola is a sense of divine calling. “You’ve just got to know and have a conviction deep in your soul that this is the Lord’s work, that we’re about our Father’s business. It’s a fight,” he said. “I know a lot of the people who have left, and they just pour their lives out and it’s just difficult work. It’s deeply personal, and something that I always try to be in prayer about, but obviously you have to know when to manage your stress too.”

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Little Colleges That Could by Jocelyn Green
Added: 03/27/12, Category: articles

“ACC president Keith Hamilton says about half of its male students and roughly 90 percent of its female students have been sexually abused in the past. For many Alaska Native youth, the future, like the long winter nights that surround them, is dark. Only about 67 percent of them complete high school, and of those who enroll in college, only 12 percent survive their first semester.
ACC, located in Soldotna, Alaska, is changing that—one life at a time.”

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15: Is it unfair to give special treatment to people who are ethnic minorities?
Added: 03/13/12, Category: video posts

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10: How important is it for us to know and apply biblical passages that address ethnic relations?
Added: 03/13/12, Category: video posts

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09: How do ethnic divisions hinder our ability to follow Christ and be a witness for Him?
Added: 03/13/12, Category: video posts

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12: How should Christians handle it when ethnicity-related conflicts and disagreements come up?
Added: 03/13/12, Category: video posts

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13: Have you felt pressure to conform (or assimilate) to another culture?
Added: 03/13/12, Category: video posts

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11: How have you been blessed by cross-cultural relationships?
Added: 03/13/12, Category: video posts

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07: Why do you think some people of color are reluctant to discuss ethnic relations?
Added: 03/13/12, Category: video posts

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21: How can Christians help to create an atmosphere where people of all ethnicities feel welcomed, valued, and included?
Added: 03/13/12, Category: video posts

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05: Should we avoid discussing ethnic relations because we’re afraid we’ll say something offensive?
Added: 03/13/12, Category: video posts

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08: How important is prayer in promoting healthy ethnic relations?
Added: 03/13/12, Category: video posts

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04: What does it take to be a change agent in the area of ethnic relations?
Added: 03/13/12, Category: video posts

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03: How should we respond when we experience prejudice and injustice?
Added: 03/13/12, Category: video posts

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02: Is it best to be “color blind” and try to ignore our ethnic differences?
Added: 03/13/12, Category: video posts

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01: Why are you motivated to work toward ethnic unity in the Body of Christ?
Added: 03/13/12, Category: video posts

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Before ‘Transforming’ Your Neighborhood, Talk to Your Neighbors by Christopher Smith
Added: 01/31/12, Category: articles

“We’ve discovered that this kind of conversation is an active way of life—essential to the abundant life into which we have been called in Christ Jesus. Finding God moving in our midst and transforming our neighborhoods, continuing the work of reconciling a broken world and drawing it deeper into the communion for which it was created—it all started, at least for us, with stopping long enough to listen.”

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Is the Preservation of Cultural Expression in Worship A Legitimate Basis for Homogenous Church Ministry? by Art Lucero
Added: 01/31/12, Category: articles

“I am not against homogenous congregations in homogenous communities. I take issue with local congregations in an ethnically diverse community who profess to exist for the glory of God by fulfilling the mandates of Christ with the caveat, ‘to our own kind’.”

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Who Knew That Hair Could Bring People Together? by Nikki Lerner
Added: 01/31/12, Category: articles

“The multicultural/multiethnic community of believers allowed me to feel even more comfortable than if I were in a unicultural/monoethnic community of people. The love, support, and encouragement were incredible. “

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God’s New Humanity by David Stevens
Added: 01/31/12, Category: articles

“Furthermore, our understanding and appreciation of who we are as a community of believers will inevitably determine how we live in community with other believers who are different from us. Where there is a crisis of identity, there is a dearth of authenticity, genuine community, and ethnic reconciliation.”

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Taking a Deeper Look at ‘Red Tails’ by Jelani Greenidge
Added: 01/31/12, Category: articles

“Despite mixed reviews, George Lucas’ blockbuster story of the Tuskegee Airmen has stirred a tremendous response, especially in the Black community. But beyond the surface buzz, the film packs profound lessons for Christian audiences.”

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Being Latino in America by Orlando Crespo
Added: 01/31/12, Category: talks

“Language, bi-culturalism, race and generational differences are just a few of the challenges Latino youth face in living productive and Godly lives in a hostile America. This seminar will define what it means to be “Latino Enough” in the United States so that young Latinos can live out God’s purposes in their lives without anxiety, fear or shame.”

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What Do I Do When The Community I Serve Doesn’t Look Like Me? by John & Samuel Liotti
Added: 01/31/12, Category: talks

“Cross cultural ministry; The Gospel sometimes calls us to serve and work alongside folk who are from different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. How do we navigate this calling?”

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Multicultural Ministry by Fred Lynch
Added: 01/31/12, Category: talks

“Dynamic ministry that is multicultural often seems as illusive as locating the rainbow’s end. Yet there’s rising a number of pioneering ministries who not only long for multicultural ministry but have gone
through the struggle to see it birthed, and they’d be the first to let you know that you can do it to! Come and find out some of the things that they would tell you NOT to do!”

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Conflict Transformation: Peace Building in an Era of Conflict by Michael Mata
Added: 01/31/12, Category: talks

“Our cities are in a world of hurt! As such, our communities and often our own lives are filled with conflict. Fractured relationships and historical differences have resulted in misunderstandings, suspicion, mistrust and rage. Christians are to be intentional agents of reconciliation and peace-building. Learn skills for identifying the sources of conflict and dealing with it constructively whether in our personal relationships, school, workplace, church, home or community. “

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Helping Communities Heal from the Wounds of the Past by Marvin Jacobo
Added: 01/31/12, Category: talks

“What’s going on here? Why is the faith community fragmented? Why am I not being welcomed into the “hood”? Why are people suspicious of me? What can I do about the opposition I am facing? Are there deeper issues that I need to be aware of?”

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Not All Latinos Eat Tacos by Michael Mata
Added: 01/31/12, Category: talks

“To see the Latino community as homogeneous and mono-cultural is to err greatly and be ineffectual in outreach to Hispanic youth. While the Latino community may hold common values, its people come from diverse historical and social locations. These differences affect how Hispanic youth look at life and their particular needs. This seminar will provide insights into Latino cultures and how to best meet the needs of Hispanic youth.”

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The Diverse Future of the American Church by Soong-Chan Rah
Added: 01/31/12, Category: talks

“Talk presented Sat, November 3, 2007 at the Urban Youth Workers Institute RELOAD Los Angeles 07-08.”

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Freedom to all Captives and Pardon to all Prisoners by Soong-Chan Rah
Added: 01/31/12, Category: talks

“Presented Fri, May 18, 2007 at the Urban Youth Workers Institute Conference 2007″

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Puzzle Peace: Strategies for Pursuing Racial & Ethnic Reconciliation by Brenda Salter-McNeil
Added: 01/31/12, Category: talks

“Without our cultural and ethnic backgrounds we have a limited and incomplete perspective of the big picture. This seminar will help people to understand how we are all interconnected and how much we need each other to be whole and complete.”

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Living Out Racial and Ethnic Reconciliation In Your Fragmented Community by Brenda Salter-McNeil
Added: 01/31/12, Category: talks

“Ethnic cleansing! Gang Shootings! Genocide! Hate crimes! Terrorism! These violent events- and the tragic stories behind them- are tearing away at the fabric of our modern society. In this learning lab, Dr. McNeil challenges emerging leaders to move from indifference and ignorance about racial injustice to become God’s agents of racial righteousness in the world.”

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Elevate by Brenda Salter-McNeil
Added: 01/31/12, Category: talks

“Audio of a talk presented at the Urban Youth Workers Institute.”

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Praying Until Something Happens by Brenda Salter-McNeil
Added: 01/31/12, Category: talks

“Audio of a workshop presented at the Urban Youth Workers Institute.”

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Teaching Kids How to Break Racial Stereotypes by Doretha O’Quinn
Added: 01/31/12, Category: talks

“Audio of a workshop presented at the Urban Youth Workers Institute.”

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We Belong Together by Alistair Begg
Added: 01/31/12, Category: talks

“In a culture where self-esteem is all important the Bible presents a better alternative. Romans 12 has much to say to those with an exaggerated idea of their own importance. Hear a lesson in humility on Truth For Life from Alistair Begg!”

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How to Become a Successful Religion (satire) by Mark Galli
Added: 01/31/12, Category: articles

“There also seems to be a fair amount of mission confusion. Some are saying you are a Jewish religion, others a religion for all takers. We advise against the latter until you are well established in Judea first. So we encourage you to curtail the activities of that fellow Paul and his friend Barnabas. If they are successful in their outreach, it will prematurely muddy the movement and confuse people. If you insist on reaching out to Gentiles (frankly, we’d advise against it, since it will only work against your outreach to your target audience), you can do so once your reputation is firmly established.
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Will Immigration Slowdown Prompt a Bilingual Ministry Bust?
Added: 01/31/12, Category: articles

“Gaston Espinosa, associate professor of religious studies at Claremont McKenna College, said the changing demographics will pressure churches to gear more toward second- and third-generation Hispanics—who virtually all speak English as a primary language.”

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A Spanish Service Is Not Enough by Daniel Rodriguez
Added: 01/31/12, Category: articles

“Here is the main challenge: Conventional Spanish-speaking ministry models are unintentionally designed to preserve the language and cultural preferences of foreign-born Latinos. My research during the past five years has convinced me that as the church’s attention and resources have been drawn to the rapid growth of the Hispanic evangelical church during the past three decades, they have unintentionally overlooked U.S.-born English-dominant Latinos. “

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Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus
Added: 01/31/12, Category: videos

“A poem I wrote to highlight the difference between Jesus and false religion. In the scriptures Jesus received the most opposition from the most religious people of his day. At it’s core Jesus’ gospel and the good news of the Cross is in pure opposition to self-righteousness/self-justification. Religion is man centered, Jesus is God-centered.”

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The Kingdom in Columbus by Katelyn Beaty
Added: 01/31/12, Category: articles

But diverse flocks don’t always fly in the same direction. “Is there tension? Absolutely,” says Christensen. “What do you do when a subcommittee has a highly organized American, a very organized Kenyan woman, and a Hispanic woman from Colombia who says, ‘I want to make sure we just feel really loose and let this thing happen’?”

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Race and the Movies
Added: 01/31/12, Category: videos

Fascinating series of three videos on the history of African Americans in movies. I think this could be a great discussion starter for a conversation about ethnic relations in America and the subtleties of racialization.

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How Charity Can Be Toxic – Interview with Bob Lupton
Added: 01/31/12, Category: interviews

“The point is, let’s examine the outcome of care. When I talk about the progression of one-way giving, first you elicit appreciation. You do it twice, you elicit anticipation. What’s more, you do it three times and it becomes expectation that he’s going to do it again. Four times and it’s an entitlement. By the fifth time it’s dependency. They’ve done it every year and we count on it. If anybody has been doing this kind of work, they begin to see that pattern. There is a chronic poverty issue and it calls for a chronic intervention, which is enabling people.”

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Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help by Bob Lupton
Added: 01/31/12, Category: books

“In Toxic Charity, Lupton urges individuals, churches, and organizations to step away from these spontaneous, often destructive acts of compassion toward thoughtful paths to community development. He delivers proven strategies for moving from toxic charity to transformative charity.”

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Theirs Is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America by Bob Lupton
Added: 01/31/12, Category: books

“Urban ministry activist Robert Lupton moved into a high crime area of Atlanta intending to bring Christ’s message into the ghetto—but his humbling discovery of a spiritual life already flowering in the city’s urban soil forces the minister to reexamine the deepest parts of his own soul, confronting his own patronizing, materialistic attitudes and the biases he himself held against the urban poor.”

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Learning to Read the Gospel Again by Anthony Baker
Added: 01/31/12, Category: articles

“Imagine a church in which children and adults of all ages, races, and classes were bound together by their common love for the words of the gospel. If Christians can learn, week after week, to read the story of Jesus of Nazareth—to love what we read, to be loved by what we read—then surely the future of the church would look a bit more hopeful.”

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A City on a Hill by Chad Brennan and Richard Johnson
Added: 01/30/12, Category: our featured tools talks videos

In this talk ReNew Partnerships staff Chad Brennan and Richard Johnson share six common mindsets that can keep Christian college campuses from shining in the area of ethnic relations.

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Red Tails (2012)
Added: 01/25/12, Category: movies

“Inspired by the perseverance and courage of the Tuskegee Airmen, “Red Tails” begins its story with World War II in full swing. As the war continues to take its toll on Allied forces in Europe, the Pentagon brass, desperate to protect their dwindling numbers of bombers, look to an option previously considered unthinkable. At long last they give The Tuskegee Airmen the chance to prove themselves in battle and forever put to rest the misplaced belief that blacks lacked the courage, discipline and intelligence to be fighter pilots.”

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Global Christian Worship
Added: 12/06/11, Category: websites

“This blog is a guided tour through music and arts coming from various Christian worship traditions and innovations around the world, plus other related topics. Your tour guide is Dr. Paul Neeley, Professor of the class “Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Christian Worship” at the Robert E. Webber Institute of Christian Worship. http://www.iws.edu/ Reading the blog posts are required for current students, and everyone else is welcome to read and comment.”

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Intercultural Fiesta Fail by Leslie Leyland Fields
Added: 12/06/11, Category: articles

“Now, back home, I realize it is a travesty to try to erase what lies between us, which is not simply distance but skin color, language, education, worldview, lifestyle, life span, and myriad other real distinctions. Surely these matter.
The basis for loving our neighbors, and for unity in Christ, is not proximity, understanding, or commonality. We are one in Christ not because we are one and the same, but because Christ is the same. It is an impoverished theology that mistakes unity in Christ for sameness in Christ.”

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Where Christian Civic Engagement Begins by Christy Tennant
Added: 12/06/11, Category: articles

For Soerens, being a civic-minded follower of Christ connects him to the very first believers. “If Christians dare to accept the confession that ‘Jesus is Lord,’ as the early church did, that means we are called to live out an alternative story rooted in the holistic, reconciling, and restoring mission of God. If Jesus is Lord of our neighborhood, what then?” If more Christians asked this question, he says, the “embodied church of, with, and for the neighborhood could emerge. Then, of course, the task is to lean into the tension between how things are and how things are supposed to be.”

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Why We Can’t Ignore Racism by John Sholar
Added: 12/06/11, Category: articles

“I cannot remember the last time I had an open discussion about race relations. Some might consider that a good thing—that maybe I have resolved my personal prejudices and do not feel the need to have conversations about issues that I have settled in my mind. And, after all, we have laws to guarantee civil rights and to protect against discrimination—why stir up controversy? But I am not so naïve as to believe that our laws have done away with racial tension in our country, and I also recognize my own need to repent for past ignorance’s. I know that my silence is not helpful or healthy.”

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Making Disciples Today: Christianity Today’s New Global Gospel Project by Mark Galli
Added: 12/06/11, Category: articles

“We’ll look at a biblically based theology through the lens of the classic creeds, ethics through the Ten Commandments, and spirituality through the Lord’s Prayer, as well as the nature of teaching (beginning in this section of the issue).”

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The Nativity Story (2006)
Added: 12/06/11, Category: movies

“In Nazareth, a town oppressed by the devastating taxation practices of King Herod, a teenage girl, Mary, is told by her parents that they have arranged for her to marry Joseph. Distraught by the idea of marrying a man she hardly knows, Mary takes refuge in a grove to collect her thoughts. There, she is visited by an angel, who tells her that she has been chosen by God to bear his son. Despite the public scorn from an unwed pregnancy, together, Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem for a census mandated by the King. It is here, with a great celestial event revealing his prophecy, in a history-defining event, that Jesus is born.”

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Challenges Facing Immigrant Pastors & Congregations Meeting In English Speaking Churches
Added: 12/06/11, Category: articles

“The growing immigrant community in America is a literal cross-cultural mission field at our doorstep. Over the years efforts made to reach these precious souls with the Gospel by an existing English-speaking congregation has proven difficult it not disastrous. Below are the observations of two men regarding the challenges facing immigrant churches and pastors when meeting in English speaking churches.”

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Online Organizational Assessment
Added: 11/15/11, Category: misc our featured tools

Our online organizational assessment provides a quick and effective way for leaders to get an accurate idea of how well their organization is doing at promoting ethnic diversity and healthy, biblical ethnic relations.

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Thoughts on Bloodlines by Efrem Smith
Added: 11/15/11, Category: articles

“The second half of the book is the problem that I have. Dr. Piper presents Calvinism as the theological framework for living into racial reconciliation biblically. I must respectfully disagree with him. He states in the book that Jesus deals with ethnocentrism, but then presents a theology rooted in Eurocentric ethnocentrism as the solution. In Dr. Piper’s commitment to racial reconciliation he can’t just have great love for theologies developed by European men.”

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G92 Immigration Conference – Video of Presentations
Added: 11/15/11, Category: videos

“The goal of this event is to promote a high level conversation about immigration in a way that honors the example of Jesus Christ and the written Word of God. Keeping Jesus and his Word at the center of this discussion is critical. We want to transcend partisan and media sound-bytes and to model an exceptionally high level of civility as we think carefully about an issue that is both complicated and important.”

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Re-’Placing’ the Christian College by Andrea Cook
Added: 11/15/11, Category: articles

“Our mission statement said that “Warner Pacific College is an urban Christian liberal arts college,” but the word urban reflected the street address rather than our educational philosophy. We missed the fact that to be educating future leaders in the city meant that our daily reality and institutional identity were inextricably linked to the life and environs of our location in Portland.”

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More Than Serving Tea
Added: 11/15/11, Category: websites

“I am the mother of three. Wife of one. I live in the north suburbs of Chicago, and I work for a parachurch organization as a multiethnic director for the region. The title of the blog comes from the title of a book I helped author. The book is about the intersection of faith, culture and gender and it tells just part of an important story of Asian American Christian women.”

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Kingdom Come: How Jesus Wants to Change the World by Allen Wakabayashi
Added: 11/15/11, Category: books

“Focusing on the kingdom of God will revolutionize how you live out your faith, how you think about your world and how you explain the good news about Jesus. Ultimately, understanding yourself as a citizen of the kingdom will empower you to be one of God’s change agents in the world.”

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The Social Gospel Saved my Soul by Katelin
Added: 11/15/11, Category: articles

“Perhaps if we took more of a stand for social justice, folks would understand that God really does care about His creation and His Kingdom, and therefore is invested in the individual, not just an institution. In scripture, we constantly see Jesus forming much of his ministry around the pairing of service and salvation. When addressing the earthly needs of those around us, we demonstrate God’s grace in a tangible way (Servant evangelism is largely based on this philosophy).”

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White Savior Complex by Katelin
Added: 11/15/11, Category: articles

“Today, we continue to bear the consequences of this patronizing legacy. Throughout our popular culture we experience the narrative of a white hero character, breaking from her/his own people to become a ‘true friend’ of the marginalized and misunderstood. We have an abundant supply of these white-guilt-catharsis movies and books.”

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White History Month by Katelin
Added: 11/15/11, Category: articles

“In the United States, it’s white history that is the default, the assumed perspective. It’s what’s taught in the classrooms, portrayed in the media, and informs policy making. So we don’t need a special time to teach it. It is taught ALL the time.”

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White Victims of Racism by Katelin
Added: 11/15/11, Category: articles

“And if our society had truly reached an equilibrium, then further action and argument would truly be unwarranted. But the assumption that >500 years of bigotry and discrimination have been reversed in the last 40 years is simply false. Not nearly as much progress has been made as most white people think. A lot of lip service has been paid, without the necessary action behind it.”

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Bamboozled by Alvin Sanders
Added: 11/15/11, Category: articles

“You can change the form of how we do church in America but you can’t change the reality of the problems of pastoral leadership. What Pastor Shaun, my colleague, and many others who want Matt. 22:37-40 churches need is to develop the lost art of lament.”

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Reconciliation 101
Added: 11/15/11, Category: websites

“This is the team blog of EFCA Samaritan Way. We already have a website, a Facebook page, Twitter….why a blog? Because reconciliation doesn’t fit in 140 characters and doesn’t work well on a static web page – it happens in real-time. We invite you to join the conversation!”

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Cracking Your Church’s Culture Code by Samuel Chand
Added: 11/15/11, Category: books

“Why is it that the best strategic plans and good leadership often are not able to move churches in the desired direction? Sam Chand contends that toxic culture is to blame. Quite often, leaders don’t sense the toxicity, but it poisons their relationships and derails their vision. “

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Willingdon Church International Church Model by Daryl Kroeker
Added: 11/15/11, Category: articles

“I find that the work I do is something like that I have never been down this road before and our church has never been down this road before. And there are not a lot of other people but a handful in our country that are doing what we are doing. So we are learning together and struggling. We have a made a number of mistakes and we have had a lot of wonderful victories.”

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Leveraging Language Through Worship Article by Nikki Lerner
Added: 11/15/11, Category: articles

“May we not forget about the intentionality required to create safe and inviting atmospheres for those that may want to call our churches home. Learning to leverage language through worship music and creativity is just one of many powerful tools needed to build the bridge to people like Wanda.”

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How To Prepare To Launch An Immigrant Ministry Through an Established Congregation by Jose Fernandez
Added: 11/15/11, Category: articles

“Spanish-speaking church planters experience conflicts as they attempt to establish an ethnic ministry within an Anglo church.. The issues are fairly common and can be minimized, if not eliminated, by the implementation of an integration strategy that can serve both groups. Here are seven points of consideration for such a strategy.”

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A New Kind of Urban Ministry by Andy Crouch
Added: 11/15/11, Category: articles

“It is not just tough urban neighborhoods that need shalom. What would bring comprehensive flourishing to those who commute in and out of the city every day? What would bring it to neighborhoods where high housing prices create a monoculture of affluence?”

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By Their Strange Fruit
Added: 11/15/11, Category: websites

“At BTSF, our mission is to facilitate justice and understanding across racial divides by offering essays, resources, and forums for discussion, in a manner that is accessible and respectful to all involved.”

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Redemption Boulevard
Added: 11/15/11, Category: websites

“This blog is dedicated to helping you develop a strong biblical foundation, learn about teamwork/leadership, explore different expressions of music/art, and building community in the Multicultural Church.”

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Proskuneo.info
Added: 11/15/11, Category: websites

“Proskuneo exists to glorify God and promote unity in the Body of Christ through multilingual, multicultural worship gatherings, worship resources, and training in order that lives be transformed and nations come together to worship God.”

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Barefoot Church: Serving the Least in a Consumer Culture by Brandon Hatmaker
Added: 11/15/11, Category: books

“Jesus called us to “serve the least” as a way of life. Yet we often reduce serving to a once a month program or seasonal event. Whether you are a pastor or a layperson, here you will find simple, reproducible strategies that will move your church from good intentions to compassionate action. “

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UnDocumented.tv
Added: 11/15/11, Category: websites

“UnDocumented.tv is a media-driven, culture-shaping movement seeking to inspire and mobilize young Evangelical Christians towards championing the needs of immigrants. We’re creating provocative, response-oriented short films paired with intentional experiences for groups and individuals.”

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Undocumented.tv Introduction
Added: 11/15/11, Category: videos

“Some in our society see immigration as an invasion. Many see immigrants—especially undocumented immigrants—as a threat to our economy, our security, and our national identity. But as a follower of Christ, God has been challenging Matthew Soerens and Jesse Oxford to see things differently: as a beautiful, missional opportunity for the Church.”

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Bill Hybels Interviews Matt Soerens on Immigration
Added: 11/15/11, Category: interviews videos

“Bill Hybels and Heather Larson of Willow Creek Community Church interview author Matthew Soerens about the issue of immigration and how the Church should respond.”

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A New Dream
Added: 11/15/11, Category: videos

A NEW DREAM from UnDocumented.tv on Vimeo. Click here to go to this resource:A New Dream About this resource (source): Immigration is a hot topic right now. But if all you see are the stories in the news, its easy to presume that those represent the majority of immigrants. Its when you actually have personal [...]

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Focus by Arthur Miller
Added: 11/15/11, Category: books

“Written in 1945, Focus was Arthur Miller’s first novel and one of the first books to directly confront American anti-Semitism. It remains as chilling and incisive today as it was at the time of its controversial debut.”

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A Better Life (2011)
Added: 11/15/11, Category: movies

“Hardworking single father Carlos Galindo (Demian Bichir) lives life for a single purpose: to provide his teenage son with the opportunity for a better life. Director Chris Weitz (About a Boy) crafts a powerful, emotional and ultimately uplifting look at the heroic struggle of immigrants in their quest for the American dream.”

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Say No to Negative Talk about Hispanic Americans by Rodriguez and Gittelson
Added: 11/15/11, Category: articles

“Make no mistake; we firmly believe that illegal immigration is very problematic for our country and must be sternly addressed. However, we must address this issue in strict compliance with our Judeo-Christian values. “

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The Help (2011)
Added: 11/15/11, Category: movies

An excellent, award winning movie about letting go of the past and anger in the South in the 1960′s–an excellent discussion starter for a conversation about biblical ethnic relations and how racism/division in our country’s past effect our present realities and efforts to build unity.

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Bloodlines Documentary by John Piper
Added: 10/04/11, Category: tv & documentary

“An exclusive video documentary featuring Pastor John Piper as he walks through his personal story of growing up with segregation in the South. His personal story boldly champions the transforming power of the gospel and the beauty of racial diversity and harmony in Christ.”

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Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church by Barna Group
Added: 10/03/11, Category: articles

Three out of ten young Christians (29%) said “churches are afraid of the beliefs of other faiths” and an identical proportion felt they are “forced to choose between my faith and my friends.” One-fifth of young adults with a Christian background said “church is like a country club, only for insiders” (22%).

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Change across Cultures by Bruce Bradshaw
Added: 10/03/11, Category: books

“I consider Bruce Bradshaw’s book a significant and timely contribution to the ethics of social transformation. His argument is convincing and compelling. No one interested in Christian ethics across cultures can afford to ignore Change across Cultures.”–Tite Tienou, Academic Dean, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

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Bloodlines Documentary Trailer by John Piper
Added: 10/03/11, Category: videos

“A trailer for the full 20 minute documentary where Pastor John describes his childhood in the South, and how the Gospel transformed his life.”

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Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian by John Piper
Added: 10/03/11, Category: books

“Sharing from his own experiences growing up in the segregated South, pastor John Piper thoughtfully exposes the unremitting problem of racism. Instead of turning finally to organizations, education, famous personalities, or government programs to address racial strife, Piper reveals the definitive source of hope—teaching how the good news about Jesus Christ actively undermines the sins that feed racial strife, and leads to a many-colored and many-cultured kingdom of God.”

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Denominations Pursuing Diversity By Christine Scheller
Added: 10/03/11, Category: articles

“The SBC’s efforts are bold, especially in light of its complicated history with race relations. But it’s far from the first predominantly white evangelical denomination to get serious about racial and ethnic diversity. The Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) and the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) have been at it for a long time, too. And, despite inevitable challenges, both are making headway.”

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Sherwood Baptist Partners with a Black Church to Bring Racial Healing
Added: 10/03/11, Category: articles

Simmons agrees. “Race relations are getting better,” he says. “People used to say, ‘It won’t happen in Albany!’ But they don’t say that anymore. Now you hear, ‘It can work, because Mt. Zion and Sherwood are doing it.’”

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Peace Child by Don Richardson
Added: 09/06/11, Category: books

“This analogy became a stepping-stone by which the gospel came into the Sawi culture and started both a spiritual and a social revolution from within. With an epilogue updating how the gospel has impacted the Sawi people, PeaceChild will inspire a new generation of readers who need to hear this unforgettable story and the lessons it teaches us about communicating Christ in a meaningful way to those around us.”

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Center for Racial Unity
Added: 09/06/11, Category: websites

“Our Mission is to teach, train and lead the Body of Christ in eradicating racism within the body,
so the body’s Unity reflects God’s love to the world.”

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Signs of the End Times by David Neff
Added: 09/06/11, Category: articles

“The restoration of economic justice became an ongoing sign of the kingdom’s presence. In Acts, when the apostles and early followers of Jesus had all things in common, it was a sign of the kingdom. When a division arose over the treatment of the Hellenistic widows, and the apostles made sure they were properly taken care of, that too was a sign of the kingdom.”

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What does the Bible say about ethnic relations?
Added: 09/06/11, Category: misc our featured tools

Many people are surprised to learn how often the Bible talks about ethnic groups and “ethnic relations” (i.e. how people of different ethnicities should view and treat one another). If we look at the Bible in its original languages we find that the Hebrew word goy and the Greek word ethnos were used very frequently. These two words are typically translated into English as “nations” or “Gentiles” but their meaning was very close to our modern understanding of “ethnic groups”. This resource contains a few of the many passages that teach us about God’s heart for ethnic relations and people of all ethnic groups. Some of the verses contain goy or ethnos (the words are highlighted) and others teach principles that have direct implications for ethnic relations.

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Characteristics of a Reconciler by Curtiss Paul DeYoung
Added: 08/08/11, Category: articles

“Our faith expresses itself through reconciliation with God, ourselves, and others. Given this understanding, the image of an artisan of reconciliation is a compelling one. An artisan is an individual who becomes exceptionally accomplished at a skill by committing his or her life to developing a craft. Artisans of reconciliation devote their lives to becoming more skilled at the art of relational bridge building. We delight at the opportunity to sharpen our diplomatic skills in the drama of human social intercourse. We are faithful in developing our God-given reconciling gifts within the context of separation and alienation.
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The Paul We Think We Know by Timothy Gombis
Added: 08/08/11, Category: articles

“The problem in the early church, therefore, was not the temptation toward legalistic works righteousness. They faced the communal challenge of incorporating non-Jewish converts into the historically Jewish people of God. First-century Judaism didn’t have a legalism problem; it had an ethnocentrism problem. The first followers of Jesus were all Jewish, and had difficulty imagining that the God of Israel who sent Jesus Christ as their Savior could possibly save non-Jews without requiring them to convert to Judaism. This is the issue in Acts 15, when Christian Jews from Judea urged the Gentiles in Antioch, “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved” (Acts 15:1).
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Do Churches Contribute to Their Communities by Barna Group
Added: 08/08/11, Category: articles

“Although public skepticism of religion has become increasingly commonplace, a new Barna Group study shows that most Americans remain relatively upbeat about the role that local churches play in their communities.
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Interview with George Yancey on his book Neither Jew Nor Gentile
Added: 08/08/11, Category: interviews

“George Yancey has been an important voice on diversity within American Christianity. In addition to authoring several books, the University of North Texas sociologist is cofounder of the Mosaix Network, a relational association that promotes multiethnic churches and interactions between ethnically diverse churches. Yancey’s most recent book, Neither Jew Nor Gentile, is an academic exploration of racial and ethnic diversity on Protestant campuses. Urban Faith contributor Joshua Canada talked to Yancey about his work. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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Major Faith Shifts Evident Among Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics Since 1991
Added: 08/08/11, Category: articles

“The Barna report indicates that the segment that possesses beliefs most likely to align with those taught in the Bible are blacks. On five of the eight belief factors, blacks were more likely than either whites or Hispanics to reflect a scriptural view.”

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Reconcilers with Chris Rice
Added: 08/08/11, Category: websites

“After attending Middlebury College in Vermont, Chris’s life took a dramatic turn when he lived and worked 17 years in an inner-city neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi with Voice of Calvary, an interracial church and Christian community-development ministry. For 12 of those years he lived in an intentional Christian community called Antioch. In 1993, he co-authored More than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel, with his African-American colleague Spencer Perkins.”

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Multicultural Attitudes in Teacher Education by Karen Lea
Added: 08/08/11, Category: videos

“The challenges associated with cultural diversity will have to be addressed by teacher education programs and schools. Research suggests that if we understand attitudes and beliefs we can predict their corresponding behaviors. If schools are to be safe environments for multiple ethnicities, then the importance of identifying the attitudinal needs related to cultural diversity is paramount. This DVD starts a conversation about multicultural attitudes and is a result of an ongoing research project.”

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Alabama Immigration Law Will Crimp Outreach by Ken Walker
Added: 08/08/11, Category: articles

“‘It will definitely affect the Hispanic church,’ said Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. “They will be fearful of even using vans to pick up [church] members—many of whom can’t afford their own cars and depend on the church for transportation.
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Michael Tait: Living Integration by Christine Scheller
Added: 08/08/11, Category: articles

“I want people to see that the beauty of the human race is found in the diversity of the human race. We are God’s bouquet. We could have all white flowers or red, but man, wouldn’t it be pretty to see a bouquet of different flowers, different styles? That to me is the beauty of it.”

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Cultural Intelligence and its role in Effective Multicultural Ministry by David Livermore
Added: 08/08/11, Category: articles

“The question that drives our research on cultural intelligence is this: Why do some individuals and ministries easily and effectively adapt their views and behaviors cross-culturally and others don’t? What factors explain the difference?”

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Diversity’s Symphony by David Bowden
Added: 07/06/11, Category: videos

“I was raised Southern Baptist. What I believed is what others practiced. A white church planted in red dirt. A midwestern boy with a tucked in shirt. I converted not just to Christianity but to an ideology, an identity, an idea, a theology. I was taught that Jesus died for the sins of humanity, that his cross would demolish all hints of inequality. That he cried out for unity in his last prayer at Gethsemane…”

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Church Diversity by Scott Williams
Added: 07/06/11, Category: books

“To ensure that Dr. King’s statement doesn’t ring true 50 years from now, Author Scott Williams challenges the church to get out of their comfort zone and confront the age-old elephant in the pew, known as church diversity. Church Diversity the book encourages congregants and ministry leaders alike to embrace diversity, rather than merely tolerate it.”

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Beyond the Reconciliation Blues by Ed Gilbreath
Added: 07/06/11, Category: videos

He states, “There are rarely any clear cut answers… That is the reason why I wrote Reconciliation Blues, to tell my story and the story of others. I want to give Christians a starting place for engaging in a more honest conversation about race. We are so afraid. We don’t know where to begin. We don’t want to say the really tough stuff because we’re afraid we are going to alienate others or be labeled a ‘racist’ or whatever.’

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Breaking Down the Barrier by Chuck Swindoll
Added: 07/06/11, Category: talks

In this talk Pastor Chuck Swindoll gives a powerful challenge to his congregation based on Ephesians 2:11-16. He states, “We don’t get it! He abolished the difference. Let it sink in your southern mind. I, a fellow southerner, plead with you, raised as you were raised. Don’t give me that answer back. We who cut our teeth learning how to discriminate, stop it! In the family of God, if this says anything, it says, ‘the wall has come tumbling down’ and in Christ, and only in Himself, are we made one. Some of you are thinking, ‘Man Swindoll, how liberal can you get?’ Just as liberal as the Scriptures! Because I have found that God is a lot easier to live with than anyone of us.”

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Something Strange Happened in Birmingham by Carl Ruby
Added: 07/06/11, Category: articles

“As I stood in front of an exhibit, surrounded by college students, reading the letter, King quit being just a distant historical political figure. Collectively we experienced him for the first time as our brother in Christ, as he pleaded with fellow pastors, some of whom were moderate white evangelical pastors, to join his struggle for justice. As I read the letter, I was surprised at the depth of its theological reflection. It wasn’t filled with “political stuff.” It was filled with “Bible stuff”— things that resonated deeply with my evangelical faith—references to Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and to the Apostle Paul, quotations from Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.”

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Ethnos Self-Assessment
Added: 07/06/11, Category: misc our featured tools

Ethnos (eth’-nos) is the biblical Greek word for nations or ethnic groups.  The 15 questions in this self-assessment tool can help you get a quick, general sense of how knowledgeable and experienced you are in the area of biblical ethnos relations.  Want to learn more?  Click here for additional tools created by our team or information about our e-learning [...]

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Ethnos Relations Quiz & Answers Sheet
Added: 07/05/11, Category: misc our featured tools

The 20 questions in this quiz can help you get a quick, general sense of how much you know about God’s plan for the ethnos and His heart for ethnos relations.

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What Is a Healthy Church Member? by Thabiti M. Anyabwile
Added: 07/04/11, Category: books

“God intends for us to play an active and vital part in the body of Christ, the local church. He wants us to experience the local church as a home more profoundly wonderful and meaningful than any other place on earth. He intends for his churches to be healthy places and for the members of those churches to be healthy as well. This book explains how membership in the local church can produce spiritual growth in its members and how each member can contribute to the growth and health of the whole.”

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My Name Is Khan (2010)
Added: 07/04/11, Category: movies

“Powerful movie about the prejudice experienced by a Muslim immigrant from India named Rizwan Khan and his efforts to prove, ‘I am not a terrorist’. It would be a great exercise for a group of Christians to watch this movie and discuss the question, ‘How could we effectively share the love of Christ with Rizwan, Mandira, and their family?’”

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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
Added: 07/04/11, Category: books

“Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation’s past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States–Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others–groups who helped create this country’s rich mosaic culture.”

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Should Pastors Accept or Reject the Homogeneous Unit Principle by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 07/04/11, Category: misc

“DeYmaz shows how the HUP more accurately and biblically applies to church planting, growth and development today. Models of engagement are also outlined and provided pointing the way to future effectiveness for all those who desiring to plant, pastor or lead local churches for the sake of the gospel in an increasingly diverse and cynical society.”

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Generous Justice by Tim Keller
Added: 07/01/11, Category: books

“It is commonly thought in secular society that the Bible is one of the greatest hindrances to doing justice. Isn’t it full of regressive views? Didn’t it condone slavery? Why look to the Bible for guidance on how to have a more just society? But Timothy Keller sees it another way. In Generous Justice, Keller explores a life of justice empowered by an experience of grace: a generous, gracious justice. “

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Trustbuilding by Rob Corcoran
Added: 07/01/11, Category: books

“Rob Corcoran has been involved in promoting dialogue and conflict reconciliation among diverse and polarized racial, ethnic, and religious groups in an array of locales in Europe, South Africa, India, and the United States for over thirty years.”

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Neither Jew Nor Gentile by George Yancey
Added: 06/29/11, Category: books

“Neither Jew Nor Gentile not only documents which institutional measures are effective, but shows how and why they work. Yancey finds that efforts to encourage interracial communication and unity promote a positive atmosphere more effectively than measures that emphasize differences among racial groups, and that dialogue among racial groups appears to be essential for the development of a positive racial atmosphere on campus. “

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What do you think about interracial dating?
Added: 06/28/11, Category: videos

In this video Pastor Perry Noble responds to this question.   ReNew staff member Richard Johnson wrote about Pastor Perry Noble’s response in our July 2011 ReNew Newsletter.

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Hole in the Head
Added: 06/28/11, Category: videos

“This video is graphic and moving. “Vertus Hardiman hid a shocking secret under a wig & beanie for over 80 years.”

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No Longer Color Blind by Rachel Lei
Added: 06/28/11, Category: articles

“Sure, I knew that there were racial tensions in inner city neighborhoods, but that didn’t have anything to do with me, did it? I’m not racist; I have friends of all colors, and we all get along just great.

Or so I thought.”

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One Church by Thame Fuller
Added: 06/28/11, Category: articles

“At this moment in history God is giving a number of His small churches in North America great opportunities to make a big global impact without leaving their neighborhoods.”

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Alternative Capitalist by Mark Moring
Added: 06/28/11, Category: articles

As an industrial psychologist, Jonathan Golden helped companies grow stronger through team building and management training. But he wanted to do something more. When a Rwandan bishop encouraged him to help coffee farmers in Rwanda, Golden was sold. As an industrial psychologist, Jonathan Golden helped companies grow stronger through team building and management training. But he wanted to do something more. When a Rwandan bishop encouraged him to help coffee farmers in Rwanda, Golden was sold.

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Civility Under Fire by Colson and George
Added: 06/28/11, Category: articles

“Our country is grappling with many high-stakes, emotionally charged issues: government spending, war, medical care, collective bargaining rights, abortion, gay marriage. Our democracy cannot prosper if people vilify, slander, and even shout down those with whom they disagree.”

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Carriers of Christ by Chad Brennan and Michaela Gregory
Added: 05/13/11, Category: videos

In this 40 min sermon, Chad Brennan and Michaela Gregory talk about the dynamic power of biblical Christian community and the important principles we can learn from the Greek terms of agape, adelphos, basileia, and ethnos. Michaela shares a powerful story of how God taught her about agape and adelphos through an unexpected friendship with a white woman named Carrie.

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Eight Biblical Megathemes
Added: 05/12/11, Category: misc our featured tools

This one page resource gives a brief summary of eight “megathemes” in the Bible based on the biblical Greek and Hebrew terms agape, adelphos, basileia, koinonia, mishpat, shalom, and tsedeq.

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India and Scateboards
Added: 05/12/11, Category: videos

“Chris Weaver, youth pastor in Brooklyn, talks about his immigrant neighborhood, the diversity of his church, and the kids that skateboard in the church basement. It is a good example of a church that is living out biblical multi-ethnic community and crossing cultural barriers for the sake of being a light for Christ in their community.”

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Ethnos Relations Timeline
Added: 05/12/11, Category: misc our featured tools

Did you know that the Bible is filled with events that can help us learn about God’s plan for the “ethnos” (the biblical Greek word for nations or ethnic groups) and his heart for ethnic relations? The Ethnos Relations Timeline lists some of these events and the principles they can teach us. 

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Race in the PCA: Preserving Cultures, While Showing Respect
Added: 05/03/11, Category: articles

“I live and work in an urban community undergoing gentrification. I see hallmarks of my culture being erased or pushed aside. I see black institutions, including the church, grasping for relevance in a community that is “safer and cleaner” but that has little affinity for African-American culture. Sure, there are new folks who love ethnic food or black theater productions, but in gentrifying communities nationwide, culturally specific programs, it seems, are becoming passé in the minds of “tolerant” and “open-minded” urbanites.”

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Yearning for Unity in Diversity by Stanley J. Long
Added: 05/03/11, Category: articles

“Because I am African-American and a pastor at FCF, I am occasionally asked, “What does FCF do for Black History Month? Is it celebrated, or is it ignored?” Our church exists to develop grace-filled followers of Jesus among the diverse people of Baltimore so that both the vertical and horizontal implications of the cross are clearly understood.”

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The Divided Church: A Racial Reality by Mike Higgins
Added: 05/03/11, Category: articles

“The negative effects of racial segregation in America’s past are yet exerting force on the church. The gospel of Jesus Christ is not powerless in this struggle; I believe it has the ability to make right whatever is wrong with the church. However, I think the church is far from finished with the race problem.”

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Who’s Succeeding at Making Churches More Multiracial? by Michael Emerson
Added: 05/02/11, Category: articles

“The rapid growth of multiracial large Protestant churches is a stunning change. At first I thought it must be a statistical error. But no matter where I checked, I found support for the story. How can we account for these changes?”

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Multicultural Ministry: A Challenge for the Indian Christian Community by Stephen Samuel
Added: 05/02/11, Category: articles

“By surveying the Biblical record in both the Old and New Testaments, we find that God has acted redemptively to choose for Himself one people comprised of many peoples. This holds several implications for the Universal Church, and for the Indian Christian Community in particular. “

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Poet Amena Brown Speaks… by Mark Moring
Added: 04/20/11, Category: articles

“As a teen, Amena Brown listened to hip-hop and dreamed of being the next Lauryn Hill; she even had a stage name, “Teknique.” But she never could quite make her rhymes mesh with the beat and the bars of the music, so she turned to spoken word poetry instead. “

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Church 2 Church by Matt Woodley
Added: 04/19/11, Category: articles

“When Pastor Joe Wittwer visited Iglesia Elim in Armenia, El Salvador, he saw the massive needs and wanted to help. He had already formed a close bond with Elim’s husband and wife pastoral team, Frank and Paty Ardon. Despite gang warfare in the neighborhood, they were partnering with Compassion International to provide weekly care for more than 300 children and their families.”

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A Light to the Nations by Michael Goheen
Added: 04/05/11, Category: books

“God’s people now live as citizens not only of the kingdom of God but also of the many cultures of the world. The church becomes one eschatological people with many cultural expressions. The relationships among gospel, church, and culture(s) become much more complex, as God’s people are now called to engage and encounter the various cultures in which they are sent to be a light to the nations.”

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Sample Content from the 2010 Multi-ethnic Church Conference
Added: 04/05/11, Category: videos

Clips from various speakers at the 2010 Multi-ethnic Church Conference hosted by Mosaix Global Network.

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True Diversity Is Harder Than It Looks By Jelani Greenidge
Added: 04/05/11, Category: articles

“We like to avoid things that are hard to deal with, and most diversity issues, once you get past the surface-level platitudes, are hard to deal with. They involve ideas and paradigms that have been entrenched for decades, if not centuries, and most fundamentally, they involve clashes between cultural lenses that create worldviews, and make it difficult to communicate.”

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The Revelation of God Through Us by Ravi Zacharias
Added: 04/05/11, Category: talks

“We need an apologetics that is: 1. not merely heard but also seen, 2. not merely argued but also felt, and 3. one which rescues not only the ends (to reach them for Christ) but also the means (the methods by which we reach them).”

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Ministry of Presence
Added: 04/05/11, Category: videos

It is often those doing “something significant” and leading the “meetings, conferences, study groups, and workshops” that receive the awards and the praise. But, it is the faithful servants who quietly and sacrificially serve through the ministry of presence who change lives, communities, and the world. After all, that is how our Lord did it.

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Worship in Black and White by Reynolds Chapman
Added: 03/24/11, Category: articles

“The church’s way of multiculturalism requires more patience. Jesus has reconciled us to himself by coming to us, knowing us, eating meals with us, and submitting his life on our behalf. Jesus values our whole life and whole story. So, while picking a diverse assortment of worship songs is a good first step, it is only that. One way of honoring each other more deeply is to know not only one another’s individual stories but also the stories of the communities that have shaped us. That means knowing not just the songs but also the stories behind those songs.”

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The Principle of Reconciliation by Eddie Baymann
Added: 03/03/11, Category: articles

“This principle is further based on the command of Christ to love God and love others (Luke 10:27)
and on the agape ethic expressed by Paul in his epistles. As a result, integration based on the principle of stewardship requires students to move from simply knowing what is right to engaging in doing that which is right (James 1:22, 2:17).”

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An Interview with Lecrae and Trip Lee
Added: 03/03/11, Category: interviews videos

“A couple of months ago (November 8, 2010) I had the privilege of sitting down with Lecrae and Trip Lee of Reach Records to talk about their stories, their music, their theology, and their future.”

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Our New Global Culture: Ministry in Urban Centers by Tim Keller
Added: 03/03/11, Category: articles

“City-center culture is very multiethnic and international, much more so than suburbs or even inner city areas. Therefore, it is crucial for urban-center churches to be as deliberately multiethnic as possible and to promote and celebrate unity in Christ as evidence of the gospel’s power. The more dominant cultural groups must humble themselves and stretch to make room for those not well represented. Great care must be taken not to allow the church to become too beholden to one political party or political agenda, or cultural diversity will be hard to maintain (and evangelism will be hard to do). At the same time, each multiethnic church will be un-avoidably di‘erent from each other, because the ethnic makeup of each church will differ.”

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How Do We Handle the Big Issues Facing the Church? by Tim Keller
Added: 03/03/11, Category: articles

“There are too many kinds of ‘never-churched-non-Christians.’ There are Arabs in Detroit, Hmongs in Chicago, Chinese and Jews in New York City, Anglos in the Northwest and Northeast that were raised by secular parents—some are artists and creative types, some work in business. All of these are growing groups of never-churched, but they are very different from one another. No model can connect to them all—every model can connect to some. “

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Seeing Hope and Bringing People Together by Bal Kumari Rai Gurung
Added: 03/03/11, Category: articles

“Forgiveness is not as easy to practise as it is to preach, but it is an essential step towards reconciliation and living in harmony. Forgiveness includes letting go of the hurts and resentments we keep within ourselves. Forgiveness is difficult. It requires energy and time, yet it is possible to achieve if people really put their heart and soul into it. “

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Peace-building and Conflict Transformation by Gary Swart
Added: 03/03/11, Category: articles

“True peace is not simply about stopping violence. The peace the Bible speaks of is shalom. Shalom is the restoration and reconciling of our relationships with God, those around us, and with all of creation. It is about bringing people back into a state of harmony, well-being, and re-connection with the creation into which God has placed us. Working towards peace and reconciliation is a ministry to which all Christians are called. It is not only for the professionals. Jesus calls us all to be peacemakers, and to love one another, including our enemies (Matthew 5). “

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Healing Through Listening by Angus Murray
Added: 03/02/11, Category: articles

“A good way to support someone’s healing process is to be an active listener. Many people rarely experience this sort of listening and it can be a great source of healing. You do not need to be a professional counsellor to listen effectively. The following are some key skills for active listening. “

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Tearfund International Learning Zone
Added: 03/02/11, Category: websites

“At Tearfund, what drives us is a belief that the local church is the answer to poverty. Inspired by the example and teaching of Jesus, we recognise that people have deeply interconnected material and spiritual needs, and we seek to meet those needs by working through our local church partners. Churches are at the heart of their communities – full of dedicated, resourceful people who want to make a long-term difference.”

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Walls of Separation by Malcolm Chisholm
Added: 03/02/11, Category: articles

“Physical distances between people and cultures can now be crossed by aeroplanes, mobile phones and 24-hour television news coverage. But many communities around the world are still divided. Conflict may be open or unseen. Physical or emotional walls now separate people who used to live together in peace. People often talk about peace and reconciliation, but few actually walk the costly road of breaking down these walls of separation.”

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Forgiveness and Reconciliation by Sarah Mirembe
Added: 03/02/11, Category: articles

“Someone who has been offended or deeply hurt will usually feel they have a right to be angry, hurt and bitter. They may even plan to take revenge. In contrast, God asks us to trust him with our pain, trust him for justice, and forgive those who hurt us (Romans 12:17-20). “

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What does the Bible say about reconciliation?
Added: 03/02/11, Category: Bible studies

“Peacemaking is an essential aspect of the Christian character. Notice the word peacemakers. Peace has to be made. It is not something that just happens. It is interesting that our sinful nature makes us peace-breakers. This is shown in today’s world as much as in the time of Jesus. Because of sin, people all too easily break the peace. “

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Six Megathemes Emerge from Barna Group Research in 2010
Added: 03/02/11, Category: articles

“The primary obstacle is not the substance of the principles on which Christianity is based, and therefore the solution is not solely providing an increase in preaching or public relations. The most influential aspect of Christianity in America is how believers do–or do not–implement their faith in public and private. “

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Illegal Immigrants in the Church? by Matthew Soerens
Added: 03/02/11, Category: articles

“The church’s Great Commission is to “make disciples of all nations” (Matt. 28:19), and immigrants—regardless of their legal status—present a mission field at our doorstep. Churches should welcome immigrants, recognizing a divinely appointed mission opportunity.”

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The Best, the Brightest, the Future of the Faith by Ravi Zacharias
Added: 03/02/11, Category: talks

“As foreign students from Africa particularly and Asia particularly have entered American universities… They are very passionate about their Christian faith. It has had a powerful impact on these campuses. I have observed this first hand in places like Harvard, Boston University, MIT, and other places. Maybe in America we would be timid about asking questions. But, from their cultural context they are not timid at all. They cannot not talk about it.”

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Word Study of ‘Reconciliation’
Added: 03/02/11, Category: Bible studies

“A one-page outline style word study of the word “reconciliation” in the Bible.”

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It Ain’t Nice! by David A. Anderson
Added: 02/03/11, Category: articles

“I got tired of everyone telling me that multicultural ministry was nice. It ain’t nice! It’s necessary! Having engaged in diverse ministry for a while now, I’ve come to realize that one must first have a conversion experience with racial reconciliation before multicultural ministry graduates from nice to necessary.”

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How We Transitioned a Homogenous Church by Dr. Wayne Schmidt
Added: 02/03/11, Category: articles

“During my last four years as Senior Pastor (August 2005 to December 2009) KCC became about 15% ethnic minority, and then I had the privilege of passing the leadership baton to Kyle Ray, an African American who was KCC’s Outreach Pastor since 2006 and is now Lead Pastor.”

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Teeming Diversity by Tim Stafford
Added: 02/03/11, Category: articles

“The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, held October 17-25 in Cape Town, South Africa, was the first gathering of evangelical Christians to attempt to accurately represent the reality of today’s church leadership. Though the West had a strong voice, its numbers were much smaller than the enthusiastic, unintimidated participants from Latin America, Africa, and Asia.”

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Multi-Ethnicity, the Moon and the Local Church by David Stevens
Added: 02/03/11, Category: articles

“How will the world ever see a tangible, meaningful expression of the unity of believers from different ethnicities and cultures if it is not expressed in local churches? The “supracongregational relationship of believers in the total Christian body” means little to my next door neighbor or colleague at work. Apart from real-life expressions in the local church, it is little more than a Platonic ideal.”

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Love Language: The new Lausanne Covenant prods us to take personal inventory by David Neff
Added: 02/03/11, Category: articles

“Thus, the Cape Town Commitment asks what I have risked for the gospel lately, what I have done for love of neighbor, where my passion for what touches the heart of God has transformed my life. The Commitment also moves beyond the Covenant by showing that evangelical theology has matured since 1974. It is missional, narrative, and more conscious of the early church’s theology. “

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The Importance of Being Earnest in Worship Article by Nikki Lerner
Added: 02/03/11, Category: articles

“Now, the service begins. The worship team comes out and is a lovely group of people, all of whom are Asian. What message would this send to you? How would what you see on the stage line up with what you had experienced up until this point? The worship team being mono-cultural might communicate that you’ve just walked into an Asian church, or maybe that only the Asian people in the church can minister through music. Do we believe this to be true – that only one racial group has the corner market on good music? Of course not!”

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Becoming a Multi-Ethnic Suburban Church by Marty Schoenleber, Jr.
Added: 02/03/11, Category: articles

“So with great ignorance, we began to move forward with our plans to become a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural church. Part of what drove our vision was the concept that every culture and ethnicity, every socio-economic and even political group sees both more and less of God and His will because of the spectacles with which they approach the Scripture and life.”

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A Heart for the Community: New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry by Fuder and Castellanos
Added: 02/03/11, Category: books

“John Fuder and Noel Castellanos have gathered together a team of experts to help you minister effectively in both the urban and suburban context. Divided into four sections (Critical Issues, Church-Planting Models, Ministering to Suburban Needs, and Parachurch Ministries), A Heart for the Community is a rich resource designed to help you do ministry today.”

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Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church by Soong-Chan Rah
Added: 02/03/11, Category: books

“Borrowing from the business concept of “cultural intelligence,” he explores how God’s people can become more multiculturally adept. From discussions about cultural and racial histories, to reviews of case-study churches and Christian groups that are succeeding in bridging ethnic divides, Rah provides a practical and hopeful guidebook for Christians wanting to minister more effectively in diverse settings.”

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Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen
Added: 02/03/11, Category: books

“Travel to the Waller plantation and meet 12-year-old Sarny, a slave whose mother was sold away when she was four. Sarny first sees Nightjohn when he is brought to the plantation with a rope around his neck, his body covered with scars from many beatings. Sarny is drawn to Nightjohn when she learns that he had escaped North to freedom, only to voluntarily return to the South. Nightjohn has a self-imposed mission–to teach slaves how to read and write. He believes knowledge is the key to helping slaves break out of bondage. Sarny is willing to take the risk, even knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment.”

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A Heart for the City: Effective Ministries to the Urban Community by John Fuder
Added: 02/03/11, Category: books

“Jesus is still the answer for urban ministries, for ministries to the downtrodden, poor, and distressed in our cities.A Heart For the City is a rich compendium of valuable information on city ministries written by people who are currently ministering in the city, including pastors, Christian school administrators, and directors of homeless missions. It includes many illustrations and case studies that will prove valuable to any who work in the city or who want to understand how to more effectively help in the city.”

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The Power of a Praying King by Lewis V. Baldwin
Added: 02/02/11, Category: articles

“Prayer helped Martin Luther King Jr. to discover the activity of God not only in his own daily life and activities but also in the needs of humanity and in the challenges of the world. He saw the many movements for freedom in his time as outpourings of God’s spirit on the nation and the world, and prayer went hand in hand with his spirited call to resist systemic, social evil in all forms. This view of prayer’s connection to God’s work in the world, perhaps more than anything else, reflected King’s vital and distinctive blend of spirituality and social vision as well as his keen sense of the tremendous value and creative potential of prayer. It also explains why King made prayer central to the struggle for civil and human rights.”

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Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King Jr. by Lewis Baldwin
Added: 02/02/11, Category: books

“Based on years of original research, Never to Leave Us Alone is the first book-length treatment of the prayer life of the famed religious and civil rights leader. Drawing on personal prayers that King recited as a seminarian and graduate student, preacher, pastor, and then civil rights leader, award-winning historian Lewis Baldwin explains how King turned to both private prayer and meditation for his own spiritual fulfillment, and to public prayer as part of his sermonic discourse, as an aspect of his pastoral care, and as a way of moving, inspiring, and reaffirming people in the context of a crusade for equal rights, social justice, and peace. “

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Preemptive Peace: An Interview with Ken Sande
Added: 02/02/11, Category: interviews

“Our view of God is truly revealed when we are in a conflict. If we view God as sovereign, all good, all powerful, then even our conflict is something he is planning to use for our good. It means seeing conflicts as opportunities. I may be mad. I’m hurt. I’m threatened. But God is going to do something good. He’s going to reveal his glory. He’s going to refine me through it.”

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I’ve Been to the Mountaintop Speech by Martin Luther King
Added: 02/02/11, Category: talks

“And he talked about a certain man, who fell among thieves. You remember that a Levite and a priest passed by on the other side. They didn’t stop to help him. And finally a man of another race came by. He got down from his beast, decided not to be compassionate by proxy. But he got down with him, administered first aid, and helped the man in need. Jesus ended up saying, this was the good man, this was the great man, because he had the capacity to project the “I” into the “thou,” and to be concerned about his brother.”

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National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
Added: 02/02/11, Category: websites

Click here to go to this resource:National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference About this resource (source): The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC) is the National Hispanic Association of Evangelicals. As the largest Latino Christian organization in America and the sister organization of the 47 million strong National Association of Evangelicals, we lead the 16 million [...]

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The Art of Inclusion with Dr. David Anderson
Added: 02/02/11, Category: e-learning our featured tools

“This session helps trainees see how the insider/outsider dynamic effects a variety of situations in a local congregation. It presents a framework for practicing “the Art of Inclusion” with the ethnic minorities and other groups in an organization that may be easily overlooked. It helps Christians understand how they can apply the biblical principles of showing favor to outsiders (1 Corinthians 12) and avoiding giving favoritism to insiders (James 2) in a way that promotes a healthy, unified community.”

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Harmonizing Cultures with Dr. Michael Emerson
Added: 02/02/11, Category: e-learning our featured tools

“Why is it so difficult for people of different ethnicities to share in Christian community (churches, universities, small groups, youth groups, etc.) together? One of the primary reasons is our different cultural preferences. Dr. Emerson explains that each person has a deeply seated habitus or “all-encompassing set of preferred tastes, smells, feelings, emotions, and ways of doing things”. Habitus differences often cause a great deal of tension in multi-ethnic congregations as members struggle with how to answer questions like: How should we worship?, Train our children?, Conduct our church life?, Minister in the community? Each person’s habitus leads them to a different conclusion. This session provides a biblical and practical framework for understanding and working through habitus differences. Special emphasis is placed on Acts 15–a good example of how the early church leadership prayerfully worked through their habitus differences with the leading of the Holy Spirit.”

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Crossing Cultures with Dr. Brenda Salter-McNeil
Added: 02/02/11, Category: e-learning our featured tools

“As America continues to become more ethnically-diverse, it is very likely that people of other ethnicities will move into your community. How should you try to connect with these new neighbors? Should you try to treat them just like you do people of your own ethnic group? Try to blend in with their cultural group? Try to be “color blind” to their cultural differences? This session explores these types of questions and helps trainees to understand the pros and cons of eight typical, cross-cultural mindsets. It emphasizes Jesus’ interaction with the Samaritan woman in John 4 as a model of how we should interact with people of other ethnicities.”

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The Drum Major Instinct by Martin Luther King
Added: 01/17/11, Category: talks

“Yes, Jesus, I want to be on your right or your left side, (Yes) not for any selfish reason. I want to be on your right or your left side, not in terms of some political kingdom or ambition. But I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.”

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At the River I Stand (1993)
Added: 01/17/11, Category: tv & documentary

“At the River I Stand skillfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a local labor dispute into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with the inevitability of tragedy at the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”

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Diversity in Higher Education
Added: 01/13/11, Category: websites

“This site is about changing institutions to be more inclusive. More specifically faith based institutions. How to approach change in this area, the role mission and theology play in successfully creating sustainable change.”

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Multi Ethnic Film Productions at Biola University
Added: 01/12/11, Category: tv & documentary

“Multi Ethnic Film Productions began as an earnest desire by Multi Ethnic Programs Director Glen Kinoshita to document the student experience. Glen’s films have grown into a visionary endeavor to stimulate thought, dialogue and change within Christian higher education.”

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Big Fish & Small Towns by Mark Wilson
Added: 01/12/11, Category: articles

“Our small Northwoods community isn’t on the way to anywhere. It’s a destination point. Locals say it’s not the end of the earth, but if it weren’t for the trees, you could see it from here! Soon after arriving from southern California 20 years ago, I discovered that small town ministry includes some unique challenges”

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Muslims in Evangelical Churches by Jason Hood
Added: 01/12/11, Category: articles

“Ultimately, as these and other questions confront us, the answers may be a matter of wisdom rather than obvious application of biblical teaching. They will also reflect the deployment of broader theological principles such as the sacramental nature (or lack thereof) of space and place.”

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Got Mail? Diversity Dialogues Across the Digital Divide
Added: 01/12/11, Category: articles

“As “iron sharpens iron,” students from different backgrounds educate one another through their critical dialogues. Back and forth they go on their computers, sharing inquires and glimpses into the vigorous process taking place inside them. Their response to one another sheds light and opens new worlds of thought and perspectives.”

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Multi-Ethnic Programs at Biola University
Added: 01/12/11, Category: websites

“We believe that Biola has been uniquely situated in a region of great diversity in language, culture and ethnicity for the purpose of fulfilling its mission of biblically centered education, scholarship and service. “

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Afternoons with Dr. David Anderson Radio Show
Added: 01/12/11, Category: misc

“Afternoons with Dr. David Anderson is a vibrant radio show in Washington, D.C. that is insightful, spiritual, witty, and builds bridges across racial, political, and cultural lines, while handling real-time topics that are provocative, relevant, and yet handled with Dr. Anderson’s unique style of gracism.”

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Human Tapestry (2010)
Added: 01/12/11, Category: tv & documentary

“For the past two years many interviews have taken place with the 15 individuals who have given their time and energy to help bring this project to completion. Real people telling real life stories.”

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Church uses creative arts to reach across cultures
Added: 01/12/11, Category: articles

“It’s said that 11 a.m. on Sunday is the most segregated hour in America,” said Anderson, 44, who has been preaching in some capacity for 24 years. “As a multicultural church, representing people from 42 nations, we seek to put a stop to that.”

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Individualism Shines Through Americans’ 2011 New Year’s Resolutions
Added: 01/12/11, Category: articles

“There were virtually no mentions of volunteering or serving others; only a handful of comments about marriage or parenting; almost no responses focusing on being a better friend; and only a small fraction of people mentioned improving their connection with God.”

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Amazing Grace in Mandarin Chinese & English
Added: 01/12/11, Category: videos

“During our Advent Series, we spoke on being a people who are Different, Yet One. This included the worship portion of the service, where Karen Yang and Carolyn Yoder led us in this beautiful hymn.”

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Multi-ethnic Church Radio Show with Mark DeYmaz
Added: 01/11/11, Category: misc

“DeYmaz’ show will include insight from influential leaders, like himself, to shed light on a fading belief that a diverse Christian society can be united through their faith alone.”

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Multicultural Ministry Handbook Edited by Anderson and Cabellon
Added: 01/10/11, Category: books

“The world is becoming increasingly diverse. More and more of our neighbors are from a variety of cultures, ethnicities and cultural backgrounds. But most churches are still culturally homogenous and do not represent every tribe and tongue. What can we do to minister more effectively to our multicultural society?”

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A Time to Dream by Glen Kinoshita
Added: 01/10/11, Category: articles

“So, just as Dr. Martin Luther King articulated his dream for a nation over thirty years ago, I sought to articulate my dream for cultural and ethnic diversity in Christian Higher Education. What would a campus committed to diversity look like?”

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What We Owe the Poor by Tim Keller
Added: 01/07/11, Category: articles

“People look at people who are different and see them as inferior and deserving of their problems. It’s a way of feeling better than others, because our hearts don’t want to rest in the gospel of grace. Power is another idol, because justice requires being involved with people of other races and sharing power with them.”

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Connection: The Key to Keeping Minority Members by Bradley Christerson
Added: 11/04/10, Category: articles

“If one cannot find a church community where deep friendships and social connections can be built, that person will often leave to find another community because this is their primary place to find community. This is one of the main reasons that multiethnic/multiracial congregations are so difficult to establish and sustain.”

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If Heaven is integrated, why not churches?
Added: 11/04/10, Category: videos

Christ Our Redeemer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Orange County, California, also practices something many other black churches don’t: integration. “We’re fully integrated in the workplace, schools, public restaurants everywhere, except the church,” Whitlock told CNN. “It’s still the most segregated place on Sunday in the United States. Our goal is to do what heaven has already done. Heaven is fully integrated.”

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Christianity Thrives among ‘Gypsies’ Despite Prejudice by Trevor Persaud
Added: 11/04/10, Category: articles

Acton is deeply impressed by Roma Christians’ ability to find joy in their faith while living on a continent that has rejected their people for centuries. “I think the Romani witness that is emerging—as it gets written down [and] people understand what is going on—[will be seen as] a moment in world religion,” he said.

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Open Friendship in a Closed Society by Peter Slade
Added: 11/04/10, Category: books

“Peter Slade offers a sustained examination of whether the Mission’s model of racial reconciliation (which stresses one-on-one, individual friendships among religious people of different races) can effectively address the issue of social justice. Slade argues that Mission Mississippi’s goal of “changing Mississippi one relationship at a time” is both a pragmatic strategy and a theological statement of hope for social and economic change in Mississippi.”

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Open Friendship in a Closed Society by Robert Elder
Added: 11/04/10, Category: articles

“Mission Mississippi today, according to the publisher’s description, is the “largest interracial ecumenical church-based racial reconciliation group in the United States.” The organization pursues its goal through a series of church partnerships and biweekly prayer breakfasts held throughout Jackson, Mississippi.”

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One Church’s Desire to Reflect the Community Leads to Rapid Growth by Andy Williams
Added: 11/04/10, Category: articles

“The demographics of the community around him were rapidly changing, and the city now looked nothing like his 98% white congregation–which had initially grown in remarkable ways, but then experienced years without growth as the neighborhood changed.”

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Americans Say Serving the Needy is Christianity’s Biggest Contribution to Society by Barna Group
Added: 11/04/10, Category: articles

“Most Americans believe that the Christian faith has made positive contributions to American society during the past few years. A new nationwide survey from The Barna Group reveals that most of those contributions fall into one of three categories. Surprisingly, the survey also discovered that Americans are even more likely to identify negative contributions to society by Christianity in recent years.”

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Ethnicity Maps of 40 U.S. Cities
Added: 11/04/10, Category: misc

Fascinating maps of 40 U.S. cities based on the 2000 Census data. Shows a small dot for every 25 people. Red = Anglo, Blue = African American, Yellow = Latino, Green = Asians. Quick and easy way to see the ethnic makeup of the neighborhoods in your city.

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Minority births drive growth in U.S. diversity
Added: 11/04/10, Category: articles

“There are more than 500 counties which have a majority of minority children,” says Kenneth Johnson, demographer at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey Institute. “The population is changing to minority from the bottom up.”

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Kruse Kronicle
Added: 11/04/10, Category: websites

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Face to Face Intercultural
Added: 10/11/10, Category: websites

Click here to visit this website

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The Purpose-Hidden Church By Chandra White-Cummings
Added: 10/11/10, Category: articles

Over time, it became clear that part of the problem was that legitimate concerns about my particular assembly had caused me to forget the purposes of the church; they became hidden behind all the reasons I had to be unhappy where I was. So no one was more surprised than me when I re-discovered the wonder, joy, and utter messiness that is the local church.

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Against the Current
Added: 10/11/10, Category: articles

In 2003, Hill left a suburban megachurch to plant River City Community Church in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. Founded by an intentionally diverse team of leaders, the congregation of 250 is now 60 percent white and 40 percent African, Latino, and Asian-American. Leadership spoke with Hill and River City’s multi-ethnic leadership team about their unexpected challenges.

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Healing the Spirit of Black Inferiority By Edward Gilbreath
Added: 10/11/10, Category: articles

I was privileged to serve on my church’s New Beginnings leadership team and had long been interested in finding ways to help Black Enola G. Airdpeople work to overcome the myth of Black inferiority — the myth created centuries ago to justify the enslavement and subjugation of Black people. It says that Black people are not as smart, not as beautiful, not as lovable, and not as valuable, as other people. It is still undermining us.

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Stranded on MLK Blvd By Wil LaVeist
Added: 10/11/10, Category: articles

I doubted that King, a man of God, would want to be honored with a structure made of stone. Didn’t he say in his “Drum Major Instinct” sermon, two months before his assassination on April 4, 1968, not to idolize him?

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One Church, Many Congregations by Brandon O’Brien
Added: 10/11/10, Category: articles

Christ Together believes that God wants to change the definition of church success. “Instead of thinking about attendance in terms of our church’s attendance, we need to think about the Church’s attendance. Instead of celebrating our baptisms only, we need to celebrate the Church’s baptisms.”

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A Mighty River or a Slippery Slope? by Mark Labberton
Added: 10/11/10, Category: articles

Many 20-somethings I know are deeply confident in the grace and truth of Jesus Christ, and also deeply humbled about their place in the world. Neither zealotry nor triumphalism holds any appeal. They see the world in overwhelming need on every level and feel compelled to respond.

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What is Biblical Justice? by Paul Louis Metzger
Added: 10/11/10, Category: articles

Justice flows from God’s heart and character. As true and good, God seeks to make the object of his holy love whole. This is what motivates God throughout the Old and New Testaments in his judgments on sin and injustice. These judgments are both individual and corporate in scope.

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Jim Wallis and Mark Dever don’t see eye to eye, but they do agree on justice
Added: 10/11/10, Category: interviews

So, for me, overcoming racism isn’t social action. It’s integral to the gospel. In Galatians Paul says in Christ there is no Jew or Gentile, bond or free, male or female. These are the fundamental human divisions of race, class, and gender that are overcome by the reconciliation we find with God and each other. There is no reconciliation with God apart from being reconciled, as Paul says, to one another. So racial reconciliation and justice are integral to the gospel; they’re not optional.

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The Grace Card (2011)
Added: 10/11/10, Category: movies

Every day, we have the opportunity to rebuild relationships and heal deep wounds by extending and receiving God’s grace. Offer THE GRACE CARD … and never underestimate the power of God’s love.

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7 Principles for Sharing Life in Multi-Ethnic Community by Brennan, Gregory, and Johnson
Added: 10/11/10, Category: talks

This workshop focuses on both head and heart and examines key principles to understand and apply when building biblical, multi-ethnic community. Beware: These seven Bible-based principles can change your life and your ministry!

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Seek Social Justice: Transforming Lives in Need
Added: 10/11/10, Category: Bible studies

Problems like poverty, addiction, and homelessness are serious and complex. Passion alone won’t solve them. Seek Social Justice is a six-lesson DVD small group study guide that provides a framework for understanding and engaging human need. Combining real-world examples of effective action with the wisdom of Christian leaders like Chuck Colson, Al Mohler, and Marvin Olasky, it will challenge your ideas about social justice and how to transform lives in need.

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Survey Finds Lots of Spiritual Dialogue But Not Much Change
Added: 10/11/10, Category: articles

“Yet, given the fact that only 7% of adults could think of any instances of change in their religious life, the larger conclusion that might be drawn is that religious leaders are not provoking people to think deeply and practically about the major issues of life and culture from a religious perspective.”

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We Are One(s) By Edward Gilbreath
Added: 10/11/10, Category: articles

In his new book, One But Not the Same, Chris Williamson uses the apostle Paul’s statement in Galatians 3:28 — “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” — to help Christians identify a biblical model for pursuing reconciliation. Williamson, the senior pastor of Strong Tower Bible Church, a multiethnic congregation in Franklin, Tennessee, recently spoke to UrbanFaith about America’s various divisions and the church’s opportunity to bridge them.

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One But Not The Same by Chris Williamson
Added: 10/11/10, Category: books

Serious learners and people intent on changing the status quo will find sound, biblical perspectives and real life examples to guide them. Readers will discover:
- How people of different races can come together, moving beyond superficiality
- Why women should be empowered to lead in the local church
- How Christians can be one without being the same politically
- What God says about wealthy and poor Christians empowering each other

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Mobilizing Hope By Adam Taylor
Added: 10/11/10, Category: books

Martin Luther King Jr. read the words of the apostle Paul to the church in Rome–”Be transformed by the renewing of your mind”–as a call not to retreat from the world but to lead the world into the kingdom of God, where peace and justice reign. In King’s day the presenting problem was entrenched racism; the movement of God was a revolution in civil rights and human dignity. Now Adam Taylor draws insights from that movement to the present, where the burden of the world is different but the need is the same.

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Forgiving As We’ve Been Forgiven by Jones and Musekura
Added: 10/11/10, Category: books

Greg Jones and Célestin Musekura describe how churches and communities can cultivate the habits that make forgiveness possible on a daily basis. Following the Rwandan genocide, Musekura lost his father and other family members to revenge killings. But then he heard God tell him to forgive the killers. The healing power of forgiveness in his own life inspired him to work for forgiveness and reconciliation across Africa.

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Welcoming the Stranger By Soerens by Hwang
Added: 10/11/10, Category: books

“In this book World Relief staffers Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hwang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. They put a human face on the issue and tell stories of immigrants’ experiences in and out of the system. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths and misconceptions about immigration and show the limitations of the current immigration system. Ultimately they point toward immigration reform that is compassionate, sensible and just, as they offer concrete ways for you and your church to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors.”

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Global Church Planting by Ott and Wilson
Added: 10/11/10, Category: books

“With nearly fifty years combined global church-planting experience, Craig Ott and Gene Wilson offer here a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for cross-cultural church planting. Combining substantive biblical principles and missiological understanding with practical insights, this book walks readers through the various models and development phases of church planting.”

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Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective by Howell and Paris
Added: 10/11/10, Category: books

“What is the role of culture in human experience? This introductory cultural anthropology text helps students understand and discern this crucial issue from a Christian perspective. The book covers standard cultural anthropology topics with special attention given to issues of concern to Christians, such as cultural relativism, evolution, and missions. It offers a fresh, contemporary approach to cultural anthropology, incorporating the most recent theory and language in the discipline.”

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Crossing Arizona (2008)
Added: 08/30/10, Category: movies

With Americans on all sides of the issue up in arms and Congress embroiled in a knock-down-drag-out policy battle over how to move forward, CROSSING ARIZONA shows how we got to where we are today . . .

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God Grew Tired of Us (2007)
Added: 08/30/10, Category: movies

An award-winning, critically acclaimed film, narrated by Nicole Kidman, God Grew Tired of Us explores the indomitable spirit of three “Lost Boys” from the Sudan who are forced to leave their homeland due to a tumultuous civil war. The film chronicles their triumph over seemingly insurmountable adversities and a relocation to America, where the Lost Boys build active and fulfilling new lives but remain deeply committed to helping friends and family they have left behind.

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Papers (2009)
Added: 08/30/10, Category: movies

“Papers” is the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status. There are approximately 2 million undocumented children who were born outside the U.S. and raised in this country. These are young people who were educated in American schools, hold American values, know only the U.S. as home and who, upon high school graduation, find the door to their future slammed shut.

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Immigration Nation!: The Battle for the Dream (2010)
Added: 08/30/10, Category: movies

Immigrant Nation! is a feature documentary film about the modern immigrant rights movement. In particular, it is the story of the
struggle of Elvira Arellano, a single mother from Chicago, who fought
her deportation. The film also interweaves the stories of individuals,
organizations, activists and community leaders united by passion and a
concern for justice.

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Made in L.A. (2007)
Added: 08/30/10, Category: movies

Please Note: This is not a Christian movie but we have included it in our resource section because it contains material that you may find helpful for discussion. Description of this movie from the film’s website: Made in L.A. is an Emmy award-winning feature documentary that follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working [...]

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Return to El Salvador (2010)
Added: 08/30/10, Category: movies

Please Note: This is not a Christian movie but we have included it in our resource section because it contains material that you may find helpful for discussion. 17 years ago, U.N. Peace Accords marked the end of a brutal civil war in El Salvador. This film is the compelling story of vibrant Salvadoran individuals [...]

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9500 Liberty (2009)
Added: 08/30/10, Category: movies

Please Note: This is not a Christian movie but we have included it in our resource section because it contains material that you may find helpful for discussion. Description of this movie from the film’s website: Prince William County, Virginia becomes ground zero in America’s explosive battle over immigration policy when elected officials adopt a [...]

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Which Way Home (2009)
Added: 08/30/10, Category: movies

Please Note: This is not a Christian movie but we have included it in our resource section because it contains material that you may find helpful for discussion. Description of this movie from the film’s website: As the United States continues to build a wall between itself and Mexico, Which Way Home shows the personal [...]

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Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action (2005)
Added: 08/30/10, Category: movies

Please Note: This is not a Christian movie but we have included it in our resource section because it contains material that you may find helpful for discussion. Description of this movie from the film’s website: Nearly all Indian lands in the U.S. face grave environmental threats – toxic waste, strip mining, oil drilling and [...]

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The Visitor (2008)
Added: 08/30/10, Category: movies

Please Note: This is not a Christian movie but we have included it in our resource section because it contains material that you may find helpful for discussion. We recommend reading a review with more information about its moral content before watching this movie or showing it to a group. Description of this movie from [...]

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Mixed Ministry: Working Together as Brothers and Sisters in an Oversexed Society By Sue Edwards and Kelley Matthews with Henry J. Rogers
Added: 08/30/10, Category: books

Product description from the publisher’s website:. How should you relate to the opposite sex in a working environment? Are the rules different for Christians? The New Testament treats Christian men and women as sacred siblings. Is that relationship a reality in your ministry? In Mixed Ministry, the male and female authors explore complex and thorny [...]

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Believe it? Then live it! By Andrew Smith
Added: 08/28/10, Category: articles

“At the heart of the gospel is the message of reconciliation. The American Heritage Dictionary associates reconciliation more closely with penance – an act of devotion performed voluntarily to show sorrow for a sin or other wrongdoing. Our need to demonstrate reconciliation culturally and ethnically within our churches is not about pursuing uniformity or cultural and ethnic dismantlement. Reconciliation is a message of togetherness and oneness. Intentional or unintentional exclusivity is not simply a matter of personal preference…it is sin that needs to be set right.”

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The New Testament Blueprint For the Multi-ethnic Church By Dr. A. Charles Ware
Added: 08/28/10, Category: articles

“In this great endeavor Christ has granted believers the privilege to participate as workers with Him (Matthew 28:19-20; Ephesians 4:16). The church will be completed, even though at times the workers may walk off the job or fail to follow the blueprints. Saints are commanded to participate in the building project. Jesus says, “Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you and, lo, I am with you always even to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:19-20). Here we have both a command to build and directives as to what to build.”

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Multi-ethnic Churches listed in Outreach’s 2009 Top 100 & Fastest Growing and Largest Churches
Added: 08/28/10, Category: articles

“’Our research indicates that churches don’t like to identify themselves by ethnicity, so it’s difficult to determine an accurate number of ethnic or multi-ethnic churches on both Outreach 100 lists. However, we do know that many megachurches are intentionally focused on reaching more cultures and ethnicities. And according to Leadership Network’s 2005 Megachurches Today study, slightly more than half of the megachurches surveyed said they were making efforts to become intentionally multi-ethnic.’”
-Ed Stetzer

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9 Basic Steps For Transitioning To A Multi-ethnic Church By Art Lucero
Added: 08/28/10, Category: articles

“The increasing diversity of communities and the declining demographic of established churches offers them the opportunity to transition from a mono-ethnic to a multi-ethnic congregation. Here are nine basic steps to take your church through the process.

Study your community. Familiarize yourself with the demographics of your community and their needs. Ministering to one’s felt needs allows you to minister to the real need the forgiveness of sins. Community service type ministries not only meet the needs of the community but they can build a bridge to share the Gospel.”

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Ten Implicit Biblical Mandates for a Multi-Ethnic Ministry By Sam Petitfils
Added: 08/28/10, Category: articles

“One could argue, quite successfully, that the Bible explicitly demands a multi-ethnic ministry. Some have done this, and others, no doubt, will build upon their work.

Presently, we will briefly summarize the implicit biblical evidence for a multi-ethnic ministry.

1. Galatians 3:28: ‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.’”

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Our Worship Response to Jesus Prayer for Unity By Stephen Michal Newby
Added: 08/16/10, Category: articles

“Is it necessary to embrace the idea of multi-ethnic worship? Is there a greater sense of God’s presence in multi-ethnic gatherings? Is there a particular power that is present there too? The answer is No. The power is in the Word of God it forms and shapes our thinking and how we worship. Practicing various worship traditions, genres, styles, languages, preferences and fusing them together are formative to our character development in Christ. How we worship should never drive doctrine. Doctrine must drive how we worship. Sound doctrine is about God and the sounds of our worship should be too.”

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Pursuing Global Christian Music in Worship By Roberta R. King
Added: 08/16/10, Category: articles

“Global Christian music is defined as any music found in the Christian Church worldwide. Particularly, it specializes in cultural musics from the non-Western world where songs are often sung in vernacular languages and performance practices remain fairly loyal to their surrounding music traditions. In the evangelical church in North America, for example, there is a growing trend for hymnals to include global songs and indigenous songs that arise out of the burgeoning churches in the Southern Hemisphere. These songs are from church communities who have recently discovered their musical voices. Likewise, musical instruments, such as the West African djembe (hand drum), have become standard components of many contemporary worship bands. Siyahamba, the popular 1990s choral anthem from South Africa, launched many choirs into searching for additional anthems from the burgeoning church in the southern hemisphere.”

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The Top Three Issues Facing Multi-ethnic Church Worship Leaders By Various Contributors
Added: 08/16/10, Category: articles

“A close friend once told me a long time ago, that in order to do multi-cultural, multi-ethnic church ministry; you have to be called to it. I didn’t understand what he meant at the time. But now I understand. Being involved in ministry is rewarding and challenging at the same time. And once you accept the call to multi-cultural ministry, it gets even more ‘fun.’”

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Music of the Heart, The Key ingredient to engaging a multi-cultural community in multi-cultural worship By Linnea Carnes
Added: 08/16/10, Category: articles

“Immanuel Evangelical Covenant Church includes first generation immigrants from about fifteen nationalities. I am constantly trying to learn what is meaningful in worship to people from these diverse backgrounds. Meeting the worship needs of people from so many different countries seems impossible. Every culture has a slightly different style and focus in its worship.”

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Multi-ethnic Worship: What does God desire? By Josh Davis
Added: 08/11/10, Category: articles

“Many times as we approach the subject of worship, we are asking the wrong questions. What kind of music do they like? What are the felt needs of the congregation? Who is our target audience? In what ways can we best worship God? But, what if, instead, we were to ask the question: What does GOD desire?”

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Is Jesus Welcome in Justice Efforts? By Tim Avery
Added: 08/11/10, Category: articles

“Fifteen years ago, some Christians volunteered to help serve and prepare food for a New York City AIDS hospice with a clientele primarily of homosexual men. Since the hospice was involved in the gay rights movement, its administrators were nervous about letting church volunteers inside their doors. They made the expectations clear: you can come and serve, but don’t proselytize.”

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Developing a Multi-ethnic, Multi-cultural Praise Team By Gregory Hooper
Added: 08/11/10, Category: articles

“Our mission statement as a worship arts ministry is ‘To celebrate Jesus’ life transforming power through creative arts, to create an atmosphere that invites people of all ethnicities to worship the living God and to cultivate spiritual growth and character development in all of our members.’”

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Advice To My Nephew Woodworm On The Subject Of Worship, By Uncle Tapescrew By Ronald Man
Added: 08/11/10, Category: articles

“My dear Woodworm,

When human creatures first come into the world, they are notorious for their single-minded focus on their basic needs, and their effectiveness in making those needs known. They make it very clear to everyone around them that they want what they want, and they want it NOW, and they won’t rest until they get it. — Delightfully, many of them never seem to advance beyond this stage!”

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What Music Styles Work Best in Racially Diverse Churches? By Gerardo Marti
Added: 08/11/10, Category: articles

“A major concern today among church leaders wanting to stimulate diversity is the question of musical style. What styles work best in racially diverse churches? Is it classic hymns of the faith, including negro spirituals? Or is it contemporary praise music and recent gospel? What about incorporating different languages, especially Spanish, or maybe Zulu or Swahili? And what about incorporating ‘ethnic rhythms’ that represent ‘soul’ or a ‘Latin beat?’”

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Down with the Homogeneous Unit Principle? by David Swanson
Added: 08/06/10, Category: articles

“The HUP is seen less favorably these days, but it remains common for church planters to target culturally similar people. Categories such as cultural elites, the creative class, or young professionals may sound exotic but are often used to describe people most like the church planter.”

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Multi-Ethnic Novelty by Dr. Paul Louis Metzger
Added: 08/06/10, Category: articles

“The gospel of reconciliation calls us out from affinity groupings based on cliques that intentionally or unintentionally exclude those who are different from us according to race, class, gender, generation, etc. Unfortunately, people don’t just shop in bookstores. Many people inside and outside the church in North America view the church as “a vendor of religious services and goods” (Hunsberger, in Missional Church, p. 84); they look for churches that will “sell” them the religious goods and services that they as individuals and as individual nuclear families want, not what they ultimately need relationally as citizens of God’s communal (and not commodity-) kingdom. We need to be expanded relationally, moved beyond hanging out simply with our “own kind of people,” moving toward being enriched by Jesus’ people from diverse backgrounds, and moving into the realization of God’s kingdom.”

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Strategic Multi-ethnic Ministry Part 1 by Rev. Dr. Min Joshua Chung
Added: 08/06/10, Category: articles

“If we see the kingdom plan with the lens of the Great Commission, we are able to evaluate and strategize our ministries for the kingdom of God. The goal is to reach all ethnos through the local churches who will creatively and diversely apply this simple yet powerful strategy.”

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Strategic Multi-ethnic Ministry Part 2 by Rev. Dr. Min Joshua Chung
Added: 08/06/10, Category: articles

“A local church can become a naturally and strategically diverse church if each believer becomes a loving person who reaches out to the people they encounter daily. Ethnic diversity has to be the result not the goal. By reaching out to the people around us without ethnic discretion the result will be a natural evolution of churches becoming multi-ethnic, especially in our diverse country. Churches must train each member to intentionally love people, which would lead to strategic and natural diversity.”

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Post-Racial in the Segregated South by Terri J. Haynes
Added: 08/04/10, Category: articles

“Kathryn Stockett’s novel of race, class, and friendship during the Jim Crow era has become a phenomenon on the best-seller lists, despite dealing with a potentially volatile subject matter. Here’s why everyone’s reading The Help.”

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The Parable of Shirley Sherrod by Edward Gilbreath
Added: 08/04/10, Category: articles

“The Shirley Sherrod incident, the latest stumble in our nation’s clumsy dance with race, should be the one that finally breaks us out of our rut of racial dysfunction and shows us that we’ve got to change our moves if we’re ever going to advance to a more meaningful discourse on the subject race relations in America.”

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Omaha’s Justice Journey, Part 2 by Amanda Long
Added: 08/04/10, Category: articles

“It is too early to tell the impact in Omaha, but the outlook is positive. For example, one of the goals of the Justice Journey is to raise awareness of social justice issues and how they are rooted in the past. Many of the church leaders who participated in Omaha’s Justice Journey are now aiming to raise awareness within their congregations.”

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A Better Vision for Short-Term Missions by Eric Iverson
Added: 08/04/10, Category: articles

“It is my responsibility to fight the economic conditions, which we introduce to thousands of Christians every year, so that they may create life-change for their students and then maybe those communities too.”

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Bob Lupton Explains Gentrification
Added: 07/07/10, Category: videos

From the DVD’s website: Gentrification is a controversial process that is re-shaping American cities. In this video clip, Dr. Robert Lupton of FCS Ministries (Atlanta) explains the term “gentrification” – giving a short history and definition. This clip is one of the bonus materials in UE2: New Neighbors.

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Immigration and the Bible
Added: 07/07/10, Category: videos

From the DVD’s website: How do you think about immigration biblically? Dr. Carroll R. (a professor at Denver Seminary and author of Christians at the Border) travels around the country providing a biblical and historical context for engaging the issue of immigration.  Urban Entry is releasing a special 60 minute DVD of Dr. Carroll’s teaching [...]

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Christians For Comprehensive Immigration Reform by CCIR
Added: 07/07/10, Category: articles

We call for an end to the unproductive, divisive, and fear-driven anti-immigrant rhetoric in the media, which has often castigated all immigrants, regardless of citizenship status, and derailed attempts at true reform. As Christian leaders who share the biblical values named below, we commit to fostering civil dialogue on immigration in our churches and in our communities. We call on President Barack Obama to provide the leadership necessary to move from the hateful rhetoric that has often characterized this national debate to action that will fix our broken immigration system. We look forward to working alongside the president to lead a new national conversation on immigration policy that reflects the best of our moral and civic values.

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Religion, Values, and Immigration Reform by the Public Religion Research Institute
Added: 07/07/10, Category: articles

A new national survey by Public Religion Research Institute finds broad support across religious groups for a comprehensive approach to immigration reform and strong approval for clergy speaking out on the issue. It also shows that Americans in different religious traditions share to a remarkable extent strong support for a set of values that should guide approaches to immigration reform.

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Arizona, immigration reform and Christian values by Gabriel Salguero and David P. Gushee
Added: 07/07/10, Category: articles

Just as Evangelicals in times past have stood together on the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, and global struggles against poverty, religious persecution, and AIDS/HIV, we must once again demonstrate a mosaic of solidarity around comprehensive immigration reform–a reform that reflects God’s mandate to remember the stranger for we were once strangers.

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Urban Entry: Send These Introduction
Added: 07/07/10, Category: videos

“Whether you say “undocumented immigrants” or “illegal aliens,” the issue of immigration stirs up all kinds of passion – fear, anger, compassion, uncertainty… Although it is a politically sticky issue, Urban Entry decided to produce a DVD on immigration because the issue raises so many “urban entry” questions about our values, hopes, and fears as we follow Jesus. Conservative and liberals are challenged to re-consider their positions when they discuss this issue as Christians.”

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Break Open The Sky by TobyMac (Feat. Israel Houghton)
Added: 06/28/10, Category: music

Lyrics From the lips of desperation Different nations, every man’s cry Comes a song of anticipation As we wait for a crack in the sky Side by side, we recognize that Hope has brought us together tonight Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Break open the sky Won’t You turn off gravity so we can fly? [...]

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Thinking Theologically about Immigration by Alex Mandes
Added: 06/28/10, Category: articles

“We must never deny that illegal immigrants are breaking the law. Yet these immigrants’ law-breaking is no reason for the church to remain uninvolved in North America’s largest mission field today consisting of fifteen to eighteen million people, many of whom tremble in the shadows of our society. Civil law is written on soft paper and constantly evolves. God’s law was chiseled on stone tablets and has remained unchanged.”

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Time for Immigration Reform by Michael Emerson
Added: 06/28/10, Category: articles

“Immigration — so central to our American identity, history, and economy — is a political hot potato to be sure. It is messy, and the system is broken. Our current policies restrict the number of immigrants that can come to the United States per year per nation. That number is too small to meet (a) the economic demand for workers by U.S. employers and (b) the draw to leave poor nations to come to a rich nation in hopes of providing for families and making a life.”

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Uncompromised Faith by S. Michael Craven
Added: 06/25/10, Category: books

Product description from the publisher’s website: In today’s culture of modernism, Christianity is an afterthought. Explore how the majesty and radical reality of God’s amazing grace has been rendered impotent in America. Then begin to tear down the cultural barriers to both the acceptance of the gospel and the mission of the church in America.

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Announcing the Reign of God by Mortimer Arias
Added: 06/25/10, Category: books

Product description: This book offers a program for Christian evangelism based on the teachings of Jesus in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. This is a superb resource volume for those wishing to test the soundness of their understanding and practice of Christian evangelism. It is solidly grounded in the ministry of Jesus and illumined by testimonial [...]

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Agents of Transformation by Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
Added: 06/24/10, Category: books

Product description from the publisher’s website. A social system relates individual to group and sets up bias against the gospel. Anthropologist Lingenfelter helps cross-cultural ministers understand and transform culture, instead of Westernizing it.

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Transforming Culture by Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
Added: 06/24/10, Category: books

Product description from the publisher’s website. In reviewing the first edition of Transforming Culture Roger Dixon wrote, "Every once in awhile, a book appears which has the potential to change one’s life and work. Transforming Culture is one of those books." Now Sherwood Lingenfelter offers an updated version of this important manual for cross-cultural workers. [...]

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Leading Across Cultures by Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
Added: 06/24/10, Category: books

Product description from the publisher’s website. As the US becomes more culturally diverse, cross-cultural ministry is no longer solely a concern for missionaries but also for nearly all pastors and church leaders. Of particular concern is the important issue of leadership–a difficult task made even more challenging in multicultural settings. Sherwood Lingenfelter, whose Ministering Cross-Culturally [...]

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Cross-Cultural Servanthood by Duane Elmer
Added: 06/24/10, Category: books

Product description from the publisher’s website: Duane Elmer asked people around the world how they felt about Western missionaries. The response? "Missionaries could be more effective if they did not think they were better than us." The last thing we want to do in cross-cultural ministry is to offend people in other cultures. Unfortunately, all [...]

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Book of Acts Multimedia Seminary Curriculum
Added: 06/09/10, Category: misc

Resources to help you in your study of the Book of Acts. “The curriculum is designed to be used in support of existing schools, as well as by groups and individuals. It consists of three central elements: graphic-driven videos, printed instruction and internet resources.”

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Flipping the Switch by Angie Ward
Added: 06/09/10, Category: articles

“Rick was a changed man, and the principles behind what happened to him—and what must happen for any individual or organization to change—are the subject of Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath.”

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One Kingdom by Peter Park
Added: 06/09/10, Category: articles

“As I begin to see how the multicultural worship movement is growing I pray that we don’t just try to bring people to our church. I hope that we’re not just trying to do the same thing we’ve been doing with Church in the past, where we’re just trying to build up our own congregation…multiculturally.”

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I Wouldn’t Use This Word With Koreans by Peter Park
Added: 06/09/10, Category: articles

“Sometimes the only places you can make fun of your own culture is within your own culture or amongst a very close group of friends.” 

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Eight Trends That Will Shape the Future of Global Missions by Eric Swanson
Added: 06/09/10, Category: articles

“The future of missions will be shaped by mutuality between East and West, North and South, sending and receiving nations. Because there are now vibrant believers and thriving churches in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eurasia, and even the Middle East, we in the West shouldn’t think of ourselves as the saving force in world missions. Churches worldwide are learning to come together.”

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Learning as Transformation: Implications for the Church in Mission to the World by Various Authors
Added: 06/09/10, Category: articles

“While the diversity within this collection of articles provides a range of perspectives and implications, it is hoped that these ideas would contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of both personal and social transformation and the implications for our ministry in the world today.”

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Change Colors by Edward Gilbreath
Added: 06/09/10, Category: articles

“Racial reconciliation among evangelicals is one of those slippery topics that come and go based on which national leader is currently jazzed about it. Back in the mid-1990s, when the Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, and Promise Keepers were riding high on the reconciliation bandwagon, it was all the rage. But Christians who are engaged in race and justice issues on a daily basis know that these periods of heightened interest typically fade after people lose that initial ‘we are one’ buzz.”

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From Multiethnic Family to Multiethnic Church by Peter Park
Added: 06/09/10, Category: articles

“Mike explains: the multiethnic church lives out the gospel; in essence…it is the gospel. There is more reconciliation, hope, healing, and problems that get solved when you’re involved in a multiethnic church. And the truth of the matter is you are going to get resistance from people in your own congregation, denomination, and peers. If it isn’t a conviction, then you’ll quit and go back to what you were doing before.”

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Urban Entry 4: Send These
Added: 06/05/10, Category: tv & documentary

“Using footage from across the country – including Ellis Island – “UE4: Send These” incorporates stories and interviews to raise 3 questions designed to help Christians think through and begin discussing the issue of immigration in America. Bonus materials include one hour of teaching from Dr. Daniel Carroll R. (Denver Seminary), one neighbor’s story of learning Spanish, an immigration discussion in a hair salon, a border trip to Mexico, and an introduction to the Christian Community Development Association.”

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Urban Entry 3: Road Trip
Added: 06/05/10, Category: tv & documentary

” “Road Trip” begins with the story of how a couple (who happen to be of different cultures) met and got married. It’s a warm beginning, but when the conversation turns to race it gets a little uncomfortable. This 15 minute DVD spotlights conversations about race and culture from an 8 day, 3,659 mile road trip. We meet a Navajo man in New Mexico, an Asian man in Oakland, a Mexican woman in Juarez, a Hispanic man in Indio, and come back to the couple in L.A. By the end, we have a greater understanding of the complexity of race and culture – and an idea that the beauty of relationships comes through awkwardness and pain. The DVD includes extended interviews and other resources in over one hour of bonus materials. As with all Urban Entry DVDs, the packaging includes discussion questions and a Bible study.”

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Urban Entry 2: New Neighbors
Added: 06/05/10, Category: tv & documentary

” “New Neighbors” begins by with the story – and 1964 Impala – of a man describing the challenges in his neighborhood. The surprise is that he lives in a suburban neighborhood. This 15 minute DVD helps groups understand gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty – the demographic shifts that are happening in their city and community. Using the example of a suburban church and drawing on the experience of urban ministry veterans, “New Neighbors” is a great way to start conversation about how Christians and churches can reach out to their cross-cultural neighbors. Bonus materials include an invitation to start a suburban immersion experience and interviews and teaching to help groups think through gentrification.”

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Urban Entry 1: Anything Helps…?
Added: 06/05/10, Category: tv & documentary

“”Anything Helps…?” begins by encountering a homeless man holding an “Anything Helps” sign on the corner. This 15 minute DVD that helps groups think through how their charity and service might help or hurt…and proposes ways for charity to become developmental and transformational. Using the example of a Christmas Store and drawing on the experience of urban ministry veterans, “Anything Helps…?” is a great way to start conversation about how to really help those in need.”

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The Five Languages of Apology by Gary Chapman
Added: 06/04/10, Category: books

“Just as you have a different love language, you also hear and express the words and gestures of apology in a different language. New York Times bestselling author Gary Chapman has teamed up with counselor Jennifer Thomas on this groundbreaking study of the way we apologize, discovering that it’s not just a matter of will-it’s a matter of how. By helping people identify the languages of apology, this book clears the way toward healing and sustaining vital relationships. The authors detail proven techniques for giving and receiving effective apologies.”

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A Repenting Church by Doug Tegner
Added: 06/04/10, Category: articles

“There are four sins we must deal with. (And I described instances of Arrogance, Hydroplaning, Gossip, and Gracelessness.) All have been observed in Pulpit, and Pew, and Parking Lot, and Public. These four venues describe our sins’ scope as we have seen these sins emanate from leaders and subgroups within the congregation; individually in the parking lot, and often displayed in front of the community—among non-believers as well as Christians from other churches.”

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Ethnic Blends by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 06/04/10, Category: articles

“In one church I know, over 100 people were hired, over the course of eight years, to fill positions of leadership. But only two minorities were hired in ministry positions, and one in an administrative role. Yet this was a town that was nearly 40 percent black! Each time a new pastor was hired, the leaders would say, ‘We are pleased to announce that we have found the best man for the job.’ He was always white and in many other ways reflective of core leadership.”

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On the Verge: an interview with David Gibbons
Added: 06/04/10, Category: articles

“We had a vision of multi-ethnicity and ethnic reconciliation and reaching the next generation. The country was still reeling from the L.A. riots, and the need for a church like this was obvious. We were also influenced by the church growth principles that were so important in the 1990s. And our church experienced rapid growth.”

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Social but Separate by Linda Leigh Hargrove
Added: 06/04/10, Category: articles

“While many social media are used to bring people together around socially positive or neutral themes, sadly many pockets of the Internet thrive on hatred and bigotry. Racism does live in the digital world.”

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Redeeming a ‘Teachable Moment’ by Various Contributors
Added: 06/04/10, Category: articles

“The special role churches could play to bring healing to our racial rifts would require recollection, repentance, restitution, and reconciliation, in that order. Reconciliation requires more than beer-bottle diplomacy — there must be transparency and truth-telling with the intention of actually changing the way we relate to each other.”

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Omaha’s Justice Journey by Amanda Long
Added: 06/04/10, Category: articles

“From Omaha, the group traveled to Selma, Birmingham, and Atlanta and toured sites such as the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, the Civil Rights Institute, the Martin Luther King Center, Ebenezer Baptist Church, the grave site of Dr. King and his wife, Coretta, the Slavery and Civil War Museum, the National Voting Rights Museum, and the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of the ‘Bloody Sunday’ conflict that disrupted the Selma march.”

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The Future Is Mestizo by Chris Rice
Added: 06/04/10, Category: articles

“There is a rich literature around ‘transcultural’ or ‘third culture kids’ who make up a kind of ‘new people’ who don’t fit into the homeland their parents left nor the culture they are living in. As a missionary kid who grew up in Korea, I identify profoundly with this.”

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Programmed by the Percentages by Chandra White-Cummings
Added: 06/04/10, Category: articles

“Years and years of social programming have taught us to respond and give sway to skin color, hair texture, nose width, lip thickness, and other racial characteristics. But the Bible stands in stark contrast to our belief system. Nowhere in the Bible do we find a word that we translate as ‘race,’ unless we consider the words translated ‘humanity’ or ‘humankind.’

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Asian American views on Ethnic Specific Ministry and Multi-ethnic Ministry by Collin Tomikawa & Sandy Schaupp
Added: 06/04/10, Category: articles

“For many in the majority culture, ethnicity is a non-category. It is not something many think about and perhaps can create a blind spot in how we see the Scriptures. Ironically, in many Asian American specific settings ethnic identity is never explored. Race and ethnicity are not things the Scriptures are silent about. Perhaps as the Asian American community gains more perspective on race and culture in the Scriptures we can bring a more accurate picture of our God to the Church.”

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A Multi-Ethnic Ministry Framework for Campus Ministry: Holding Tightly to the Lord and Loosely to Our Own Agenda by Paul Sorrentino
Added: 06/04/10, Category: articles

“Majority people have many of their social and cultural core issues addressed by the broader society and may not even need to think about them. Because of this, majority people are much more likely to focus on personal core issues. Because personal core issues are common to all people, there is some attraction to these areas for people of color as well. However, like Eric Erikson’s basic needs pyramid, it is far more difficult for students of color to focus on personal core issues alone when so many other needs are pressing.”

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Let the Walls Come Down by William Seymour
Added: 06/04/10, Category: articles

“He had a dream, that people of all colors would worship together, under the power of the Holy Spirit, during a time period where racial hatred and strife was at peaking. He spent his life seeking this dream, and he would not relinquish this dream, even unto the end. Unfortunately, many of the inheritors of his legacy have steered the course of the Pentecostal movement away from his original dream, but Seymour himself should be remembered as the pioneer of this powerful movement.”

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Minority babies set to become majority in 2010
Added: 06/04/10, Category: articles

“Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years. In fact, demographers say this year could be the “tipping point” when the number of babies born to minorities outnumbers that of babies born to whites.”

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Social Healing: Ethnic & Social Identity Development by Andrew Sears
Added: 06/03/10, Category: articles

“While the inner-healing process provides a framework primarily focused on personal growth issues related to the family, the ethnic identity process provides a framework focused primarily on healing the brokenness we inherit from culture and society. Obviously these two areas of family and culture are closely interrelated, so in addressing these interrelated issues, it is helpful to use tools that provide both an individual and group framework. Social healing is an attempt to combine the strengths from both individual and group frameworks of seeking God.”

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Survey Shows How the Faith of America’s Hispanics Has Changed
Added: 06/03/10, Category: articles

“The research points out several important realities about the faith of Hispanics in America. First, Hispanics are becoming a more mainstream population in various ways – politically, economically, relationally, culturally – and this data reveals that they are assimilating in their faith perspectives and practices, as well. The influence of a dominant culture and its traditions has a powerful affect on people’s lives. While Hispanics have indisputably influenced American culture, these figures remind us that such transformation is a two-way street.”

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How the Faith of African-Americans Has Changed
Added: 06/03/10, Category: articles

“Compared to the other three ethnic groups, blacks emerged as the most likely to engage in each of five church-related activities in a typical week (attending church services, participating in a small group, attending a Sunday school class, praying, and reading the Bible). They were also the most likely to have made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life and to have an “active faith” (i.e., attend church services, pray to God and read from the Bible during the week). They also had the lowest proportion of unchurched adults and were the ethnic group least likely to be Catholic.”

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In Class Today: Mosaic Churches by David Park
Added: 06/03/10, Category: articles

“Culture is one of those weird words. Anyone who has studied anthropology may know how slippery this word is. Some definitions then… Culture: variously defined–all culture participates in both the dignity of humanity created in God’s image AND in the brokenness of humanity. Multiculture: either pluralistic, where each culture contributes to the whole, or particularistic, where concern is to preserve the particular characteristics of each. Multiethnic: consisting of people from various “people groups” (cultural, tribal, national identities = “the ethnos”)”

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Interview with Efrem Smith
Added: 06/03/10, Category: interviews

“I’ve also realized that reconciliation has to take on not just issues of race and ethnicity; it’s got to take on issues in your marriage, in your family, in your job. It’s got to be intergenerational. It’s got to be across class. It’s got to—and this comes from Scripture—start with being reconciled to God, and then it has to have relevance in your life in terms of relationships.”

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The Color of Faith: Building Community in a Multiracial Society by Fumitaka Matsuoka
Added: 03/02/10, Category: books

“In The Color of Faith, Fumitaka Matsuoka provides a theological perspective on racial and ethnic plurality by exploring such issues as alienation across shifting race lines, race and justice; the interworkings of race, class, and culture; and signs of hope amid an enduring culture of opposition. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this is a constructive theological work that reflects on the role Christian faith communities play in a multiracial society and forges a new vision of human relatedness and community building.”

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Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
Added: 03/02/10, Category: books

“Uprooting Racism explores the manifestations of racism in politics, work, community, and family life. It moves beyond the definition and unlearning of racism to address the many areas of privilege for white people and suggests ways for individuals and groups to challenge the structures of racism. “

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Coming Together in the 21st Century by Curtiss Paul DeYoung
Added: 03/02/10, Category: books

“This newly revised and expanded 15th anniversary edition offers readers an in-depth study of multiculturalism and diversity in Scripture. With nearly 50 percent new material, Coming Together in the 21st Century features contributions from ethnically and culturally diverse men and women who offer their unique perspectives.”

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Reconciliation: Our Greatest Challenge–Our Only Hope by Curtiss Paul Deyoung
Added: 03/02/10, Category: books

“DeYoung considers reconciliation in its broadest sense with periodic asides to illustrate practical approaches to separation based on race, gender, culture, class, nationalism, etc. The core of Reconciliation describes what is essential for actually engaging in the process of reconciliation: taking responsibility, seeking forgiveness, repairing the wrong, healing the soul, and creating a new way of relating.”

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What Color Is Your God? by James and Lillian Breckenridge
Added: 03/02/10, Category: books

“This concise text offers a dynamic look at multicultural America, showing ministers and others how to honor ethnic differences and avoid pitfalls when presenting the gospel. It illustrates that cultural diversity creates an opportunity for creative expressions of church-related education.”

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Dismantling Racism by Joseph Barndt
Added: 03/02/10, Category: books

“Racism has reemerged, dramatically and forcefully. All of us — people of color and white people alike — are damaged by its debilitating effects. In this book, the author addresses the “majority,” the white race in the United States. Racism permeates the individual attitudes and behavior of white people, but even more seriously, it permeates public systems, institutions, and culture. This book does not intend to attack or to produce guilt, but its message is tough and demanding.”

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Cities: Missions’ New Frontier by Greenway and Monsma
Added: 03/02/10, Category: books

“Peppered with practical, experiential illustrations, Cities draws its biblical inspiration from the model of the Antiochan church in the Book of Acts. It provides foundations for the practice of urban mission and impresses upon hearts the vital importance of this field of ministry.”

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Globalizing Theology by Netland and Ott
Added: 03/02/10, Category: books

“In nearly every realm–political, economic, cultural, ethnic, and religious–traditional boundaries are disappearing and people worldwide are more interconnected than ever. Recent decades have also seen the globalization of Christianity and the accompanying shift in the center of gravity of Christianity from the West to the southern hemisphere and Asia. As these realities take deeper root, scholars, students, and church leaders must grapple with the implications for theological reflection and method, not to mention missiological practice.”

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Gospel in Human Contexts by Paul Hiebert
Added: 03/02/10, Category: books

“This engagingly written book by the leading missiological anthropologist, the late Paul Hiebert, provides a helpful overview of, and perspective on, missions and missiology at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is grounded in sophisticated theory while remaining wonderfully accessible and eminently practical.”–Robert J. Priest, professor, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

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Let the Nations Be Glad! by John Piper
Added: 03/02/10, Category: books

“If I had to choose only one book on missions, Let the Nations Be Glad! would be it–precisely because it’s about so much more than missions. The book’s relentless God-centered focus, with its stress on worship as the ‘fuel and goal of missions,’ provides the crucial biblical counterpoint to the anthropocentric drumbeat of our day. Don’t read it unless you’re willing to have your eyes reopened to the highest possible motive for being about the business of reaching the world for Christ.”–Duane Litfin, president, Wheaton College

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Racial Reconciliation: After the Hugs, What? by Andres T. Tapia
Added: 03/02/10, Category: articles

“The exchange of warm fuzzies won’t do, either. For instance, when the nearly 70,000 men present at the Chicago pk rally were asked by the emcee, “Gentlemen, why are we here?,” they shook the stadium with shouts of “To break down the walls!” But racial reconciliation involves more than a pep rally.”

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CallToRenewal.com
Added: 03/02/10, Category: websites

“Our mission is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world.”

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Interview with John Piper on Racial Reconciliation in the Church
Added: 03/02/10, Category: interviews

“There is a beautiful movement today of the “soul-dynamic” in the black church (see Carl Ellis’ book Free At Last?). This dynamic is what characterized the black church over the years when they knew God and saw God, and the God that they knew and saw (not systematically, but experientially and with some articulation of biblical truth) was sovereign, solid, and real. He sustained the black church through slavery and injustice and through crisis after crisis. We now have songs and music that were born out of that suffering, and that vision of God is amazingly coherent with the reformed vision of God as expressed by John Calvin, Martin Luther, Charles Spurgeon, and John Owen.”

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Color Blindness, Political Correctness, or Racial Reconciliation: Christian Ethics and Race by George Yancey
Added: 03/02/10, Category: articles

“Reconciliation theology offers a third way to examine the problems of race within our society. It is an ideology that evangelicals may be able to use to attract non-believers who are dissatisfied with the answers that they have received from the two secular models. It is also a model by which Christians can gain a better understanding of racial issues. Therefore, we must find ways to communicate our vision of reconciliation to the larger American society. We need our churches to go beyond superficial racial platitudes to make the Body of Christ an instrument that develops healthy, close, egalitarian, and reconciled racial relationships.”

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More Than a Month (2011)
Added: 03/01/10, Category: tv & documentary

“MORE THAN A MONTH is a feature documentary film that follows Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year old African-American filmmaker, on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month (BHM). Through this tongue-in-cheek journey the film investigates what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a “post-racial” America.”

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Developing Multi-ethnic Ministries Bibliography by Dr. Peter Cha
Added: 03/01/10, Category: misc

The following is a bibliography created by Dr. Peter Cha for a course at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School on “Developing Multi-ethnic Ministries”. He has graciously allowed us to post this treasure of excellent resources on our website.

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Racial Tension in School by Tiffany Moncrief
Added: 03/01/10, Category: articles

“After sharing such powerful history and thought provoking words, students were silent except for one young man, who quietly expressed to the children in his close vicinity, “I wish we still had slaves. That would make my life a whole lot easier.””

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Occupied with Nonviolence: A Palestinian Woman Speaks by Jean Zaru
Added: 03/01/10, Category: books

“Zaru vividly paints the complex realities faced by all parties in Palestine — Jews and Muslims and Christians, Israelis and Palestinians, women and men. Yet even as Zaru eloquently names the common misunderstandings of the history, present situation, and current policies of the parties there, she vividly articulates an alternative: a religiously motivated nonviolent path to peace and justice in the world’s most troubled region.”

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Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights by Rosetta Ross
Added: 03/01/10, Category: books

“In a fascinating narrative style that draws on biography, social history, and original archival research, Ross shows how their moral formation and work reflect both womanist consciousness and practices of witness and testimony, both emergent from the black religious context. Ross’ major work is engrossing history and moving ethical challenge.”

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Race, Racism, and the Biblical Narratives by Cain Hope Felder
Added: 03/01/10, Category: books

” Felder’s important work clarifies the profound differences in racial attitudes in the biblical world and now. He shows processes at work in both testaments that reflect ancient ambiguity about what we call race. He uncovers misuses of the biblical text (such as the so-called curse of Ham) in subsequent interpretation and shows how the Bible has been used to trivialize African contributions and demean and enslave black people. Felder challenges scholars and church people alike to deeper and more honest engagement with the biblical text.”

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The Power of Forgiveness: Keep Your Heart Free by Joyce Meyer
Added: 03/01/10, Category: books

“When someone says, “I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” they really are saying, “I will not forgive.” Unforgiveness, resentment, and bitterness are spiritual maladies that keep many people from living a Spirit-filled life. Joyce Meyer says that keeping score of all the hurts we have suffered does more spiritual damage to us than those who have offended us. In fact, we can suffer serious physical illnesses as a result of unforgiveness. Is it difficult to forgive? Absolutely, but the rewards are well worth it.”

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The Power of Forgiveness by Kenneth Briggs
Added: 03/01/10, Category: books

“The work, by noted religion writer Kenneth Briggs, explores the dimensions and frontiers of a problem that perplexes and sometimes liberates everyone who has wronged another and/or has been wronged by another. Taking its theme and key resources from the Martin Doblmeier film of the same name, the book points in a direction of its own: probing religious meanings of the process, including the pacifist option; testing the complexities and limits of forgiving; considering the difficulties of actually carrying it out; and examining scientific claims that forgiveness improves health.”

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The Power of Forgiveness (2007)
Added: 03/01/10, Category: tv & documentary

“Over the last 20 years the topic of forgiveness has come into its own as an area of academic study. Researchers are now examining the psychological and physical effects of forgiveness on individuals and within relationships under an amazingly wide variety of conditions, ranging from petty insults to sexual assault. Clinicians have developed interventions that help guide people through a structured process that allows them to forgive transgressions and get on with their lives.”

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Living Faith: How Faith Inspires Social Justice by Curtiss Paul DeYoung
Added: 03/01/10, Category: books

“In this instructive and inspiring account, Christian ethicist Curtiss DeYoung profiles three of the most dynamic and influential religious activists of the twentieth century: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Malcolm X, and Aung San Suu Kyi – each from a different generation, a different faith community, and a different continent. His portraits show how their mystic faith drove them to justice commitments and beyond customary boundaries between people from other traditions, countries, and ways of life.”

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No Perfect People Allowed: Creating a Come-as-You-Are Culture in the Church by John Burke
Added: 03/01/10, Category: books

“This book challenges Christian leaders to engage in the messy art of creating the right culture to reach our postmodern, post-Christian society. Through real stories of God’s perfect work in the lives of imperfect people, you will experience the power of an authentic church community and learn how to deconstruct barriers and bring hope and healing to America’s most unchurched generation.”

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The Church Enslaved by Campolo and Battle
Added: 03/01/10, Category: books

“Campolo and Battle expose the realities of racial division in the churches and then lift up a vision of a church without racism. To achieve reconciliation within and among the denominations, they argue, both the black and the white church need to acknowledge and overcome substantial problems in their traditions.”

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Building Unity in the Church of the New Millennium by Dwight Perry
Added: 03/01/10, Category: books

“The church has changed. It is more diverse and as such faces new and imposing challenges. Building Unity in the Church of the New Millennium is an extraordinary collection of articles from a diverse group of ministry leaders devoted to unity among those of different races, classes, genders, and other groups within the church. To love as Christ commanded, the church simply must learn to incorporate, reach out to, and become unified with the people of God’s whole kingdom.”

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The Story Behind Amazing Grace by Wintley Phipps
Added: 02/25/10, Category: videos

Watch the amazing video of the history of Amazing Grace. Wintley Phipps at Carnegie Hall tells and sings the story behind the creation of Amazing Grace. Did you know that Amazing Grace is set to the tune of a West African Sorrow Chant? Watch it all, but don’t miss starting at 5:40 when he hums/moans/sings it as Newton likely first heard it coming up from the belly of the slave ship. 

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One In Christ by Brenda Salter-McNeil
Added: 02/25/10, Category: talks

“We’re living in a multiethnic, multilingual, multicultural, multinational world in which most people agree racism is a problem and reconciliation is a necessity. Yet they don’t know what to do about it. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil explains how the heart must be different—and helps Navigators understand how to achieve it.”

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Unity in Christ Magazine
Added: 02/25/10, Category: websites

“The purpose of this e-zine is to equip, inform, and educate our readers on how to serve a multi-ethnic society in a multi-cultural world through the various venues of the body of Christ. Our target audience is international in scope appealing to the leadership of the church; denominational leaders, lay leaders, clergy, worship leaders, missionaries, chaplains, and educators who are passionate about fulfilling the mandates of Christ (Acts 1:8; John 13:34-35) in their ethnically diverse community.”

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Next Gener.Asian Church
Added: 02/25/10, Category: websites

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Hide Park Voyage
Added: 02/25/10, Category: websites

CLICK HERE TO JUMP TO THIS RESOURCE

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Invitation to Racial Righteousness
Added: 02/25/10, Category: misc

“The Invitation to Racial Righteousness is an experience that will challenge participants to move beyond language and knowledge of racial righteousness to a deeper place of personal awareness, responsibility, healing and action.”

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Honoring Others by Peter Park
Added: 02/25/10, Category: articles

Something that I feel the Korean culture does very well is honoring their elders. There is an expectation, as a younger person, where your job is to be their servant and value who they are. And that means having them sit down first during meals, bringing their meals to them, listening to their advice, etc.

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Can Megachurches Bridge the Racial Divide?
Added: 02/04/10, Category: articles

But in some churches, the racial divide is beginning to erode, and it is fading fastest in one of American religion’s most conservative precincts: Evangelical Christianity. According to Michael Emerson, a specialist on race and faith at Rice University, the proportion of American churches with 20% or more minority participation has languished at about 7.5% for the past nine years. But among Evangelical churches with attendance of 1,000 people or more, the slice has more than quadrupled, from 6% in 1998 to 25% in 2007.

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Church Diversity Sucks by Pastor Scott Williams
Added: 02/04/10, Category: videos

One of the 9 minute videos broadcast as a part of The Nines leadership conference on 9/9/09. Pastor Scott Williams gives a powerful challenge to leaders to go beyond “just tolerating” diversity to intentionally embracing it. He challenges us to have conversations about embracing diversity with… God, our staff, and our congregations. “Church diversity sucks but the real fact is that it doesn’t have to.”

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Covenant Resources
Added: 02/04/10, Category: websites

“Got questions? We can help! The Covenant Resource Center is a place where you can find resources that will increase the effectiveness of your ministry. Our goal is to connect you with programs, resources, and other people who can help you throughout all stages of your church’s developing ministries.”

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The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
Added: 01/14/10, Category: books

“If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Men are fools, perhaps; but hardly so foolish as that. The direct inference from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous root, from senseless work to a workman infinitely wise, staggers belief.”

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Searching for God in the Rubble of an Earthquake by Robert Kellemen
Added: 01/14/10, Category: articles

“Satan desires that we focus only on the smaller story and conclude that “Life Is Bad, and So Is God.” God urges us to focus upon the larger story and realize that “Life Is Bad, but God Is Good.” One of the keys to our spiritual life, especially during times of personal suffering or national tragedy, is to move people from Satan’s view of life toward God’s perspective on this life and the next.”

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Soul Physicians: A Theology of Soul Care And Spiritual Direction by Robert Kellemen
Added: 01/14/10, Category: books

“Soul Physicians is a truly meaningful and valuable treatment of the theological, spiritual, and psychological dimensions of counseling, soul care, spiritual formation, and the relationships between them. It can serve as a textbook, a personal study guide, or a resource handbook for those desiring to approach people-helping from a thoroughly Christian and biblical viewpoint.” – Dr. Richard Averbeck

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The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? by David Bentley Hart
Added: 01/14/10, Category: books

This fascinating small book (109 pages) was required reading for a theology course I took recently through Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. It offers “another perspective” for those who may present that all acts of nature should be seen as coming directly from the hand of God. Even if you don’t agree with all his theology, I think you may find Professor Hart’s perspective very helpful as you seek to care for those who are going through enormous suffering.

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Love My Neighbor as Myself?
Added: 01/14/10, Category: articles

Christians are commanded to love their neighbor as themselves. There is no man that I may pre-judge as superior to or worse than myself based on clothing, vehicle, home, ethnicity, criminal record, # of children out of wedlock, bad hygiene, bad attitude, religion or social group, etc. Prejudice is not the character of Christ that I am called to imitate. It is the characteristic of the world.

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A Framework for Social Healing by Andrew Sears
Added: 12/15/09, Category: articles

“This material provides an introduction to a vision of “Social Healing” as a way to transform ourselves, our churches and our society to address injustice and bring the Gospel to our communities and the world. The goal of this material will help us to better understand our own church cultures and how to foster minority cultures within our church communities to develop communities that can more effectively address injustice.”

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Jesus, Justice, and Poverty
Added: 12/15/09, Category: Bible studies

“This Continued Dialogue (CD) Packet is designed to explore topics that might interest students who are more socially active and/or have justice-specific questions or issues with God or the Christian faith. These CDs are an attempt to expose the true Jesus that preached the Kingdom of God while caring for the poor, brokenhearted, marginalized and oppressed sectors of society. The Jesus that didn’t separate evangelism from justice, but lived them both out seamlessly in his life. The Jesus that looked more like a revolutionary than a religious leader, the one who lived out the love that he spoke about”

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Compassion by Command
Added: 12/15/09, Category: Bible studies

“Here’s Life has designed this innovative study using both Scripture and a variety of resources on DVD. The student and teacher study guides will help your church explore issues of poverty and discover biblical directives related to the poor. Effective in either a 7-week or 14-week format, Compassion by Command also offers practical steps to help your church make a difference in your community.”

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Wheaton College – List of Recommended Readings
Added: 12/15/09, Category: misc

click here to view this resource An excellent list of 20 books with brief reviews. From their website: The question is often raised regarding books to look at in order to find more information on addressing issues of diversity from a Christian worldview. This bibliography, though no means exhaustive, provides a starting point for exploring [...]

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Winning the Race to Unity by Clarence Shuler
Added: 12/15/09, Category: books

“It’s been said that the most segregated time of the week is Sunday morning. The church experiences the same racial tensions as the rest of society and this certainly does not bring glory to God. In Winning the Race to Unity, Clarence Shuler directly confronts this racial divide and challenges the church to face these problems and tackle them head on. Come along on this necessary journey and prepare to grow and be changed.”

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urbanentry.org
Added: 12/15/09, Category: websites

Click here to visit this website

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Reconciliation 101 Free Training Resource
Added: 12/15/09, Category: misc

“A Good Samaritan Retreat creates a learning space within your church for your leaders and members to engage reconciliation both theologically and practically. Part of the retreat is a leadership training experience entitled Reconciliation 101. We now have available a free DVD of Reconciliation 101.”

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The Fallout of the ‘Deadly Viper’ by Edward Gilbreath
Added: 12/11/09, Category: articles

“In case you hadn’t heard, Zondervan made a major announcement yesterday regarding the Deadly Viper Character Assassins book that was the source of so much anger and controversy recently. Effective immediately, Zondervan undertook the courageous step of permanently removing all the books from stores and discontinuing all related curriculum and products. Quite a bold gesture, and a remarkable example of repentance. Hopefully, the pain and high emotion of the past few weeks can now give way to true healing and reconciliation.”

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EfremSmith.com
Added: 12/11/09, Category: websites

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This Side of Heaven by Priest and Nieves
Added: 12/11/09, Category: books

“This Side of Heaven is a major contribution to the study of race, ethnicity, and religion. I found an incredible wealth of knowledge and insight in the book’s chapters. This is a book to use in college and seminary courses, to read in your home, and to work through in small groups. Be prepared for serious discussions, as this volume if full of hard hitting chapters that cut to the core of religion, race, and ethnicity. Strongly recommended.” — Michael O. Emerson

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Recommended Resources for Studying the Book of Acts
Added: 12/11/09, Category: misc

Luke packed Acts with essential stories, lessons, and principles for sorting through multi-ethnic issues–it is one of our greatest resources for promoting ethnic unity in the church. In the winter of 2009 I enjoyed taking a seminary course on Acts by Dr. Eckhard Schnabel, a top expert on the early church and the book of Acts. This is a list of commentaries, studies, atlases, etc. that he recommended to our class.

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Racial Righteousness Bibliography
Added: 12/11/09, Category: misc

18 pages worth of books, seminars, and other resources on multi-ethnic topics created by the staff of the Evangelical Covenant’s Resource Center.

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Developing Racial Righteousness
Added: 12/11/09, Category: Bible studies

“Developing Racial Righteousness is an essential component of our spiritual growth which involves some very intentional practices. Here we offer some steps toward establishing right relationships with god and one another within a world that is increasingly diverse.”

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America Beyond Black and White by Ronald Fernandez
Added: 12/11/09, Category: books

“The book is an impassioned call for a new way of imagining race and ethnicity in America. For the first time in U.S. history, the black-white dichotomy that historically has defined race and ethnicity is being challenged, not by a small minority, but by the fastest-growing and arguably most vocal segment of the increasingly diverse American population — Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Indians, Arabs, and many more — who are breaking down and recreating the very definitions of race.”

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Interview with Dave Gibbons
Added: 12/10/09, Category: articles interviews

“Well, I did notice just how ethnocentric congregations were. I had grown up in a pretty homogeneous white church and went to megachurches that were all white. That always bothered me. Why was this going on?

Then I went to a Korean Church and quickly realized they had the same issues. If the truth were known, they’d hate it if their children married an African America guy—or, for many of them, even a white guy.”

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The Culture Clasher
Added: 12/10/09, Category: articles interviews

“If you only create a safe place, you can become too comfortable and feel no need to change and grow. If you only have the presence of discomfort, you generate too much stress to allow for growth. Both a safe place and discomfort must exist to move towards growth. My book is an attempt to introduce a bit of discomfort to the overly comfortable culture of American evangelicalism.”

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Interview with the staff of River City Community Church
Added: 12/10/09, Category: articles interviews

“Most of our new people are white. But there’s a revolving door with the white community here. They have a romantic notion of being part of a multi-ethnic church, so many of them get frustrated and leave when they realize how difficult it is to release their assumptions about the way church is supposed to be.”

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Interview with Rick Richardson and Brenda Salter-McNeil
Added: 12/10/09, Category: articles interviews

“When we stay isolated like the disciples initially did, in our Jerusalem, wherever that might be—our Presbyterianism, my Pentecostalism, my suburb or my city, my Black church or your Latino church or your Chinese Christian church—when we stay too long in Jerusalem, we start to think that reconciliation begins and ends there.”

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Holistic Hardware
Added: 12/10/09, Category: misc

“Using time-tested principles, Biblical and real-life role models, dramatic sketches and inspirational testimonies, Holistic Hardware focuses on the ten key tools that an individual needs to transform his circumstances and character”

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The Blind Side (2009)
Added: 12/10/09, Category: movies

“What starts out as a gesture of kindness turns into something more as Michael becomes part of the Tuohy family despite the differences in their backgrounds… Michael’s presence in the Tuohys’ lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own.”

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Hopes buoyed on race relations
Added: 12/10/09, Category: articles

“To be sure, race remains a flashpoint and a divide. Blacks are much more likely than whites to say that racism against blacks persists — 72% of blacks say it is widespread, compared with 49% of whites — but they are also more optimistic that Obama’s election will improve that.”

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Multiracial people become fastest growing US group
Added: 12/10/09, Category: articles

“Multiracial Americans have become the fastest growing demographic group, wielding an impact on minority growth that challenges traditional notions of race.”

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Tracing the rise of the Hispanic population, 1980 through 2008
Added: 12/10/09, Category: misc

An interactive map showing the increase in the number of Latinos in the U.S.

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Soong Chan Rah Speaking at CCDA 2009
Added: 12/10/09, Category: talks videos

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Early Church History and Culture – Vince Campbell and Soong-Chan Rah
Added: 12/10/09, Category: talks videos

I sat in on this workshop when I attended the CCDA conference in 2009. Very interesting discussion!

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A look at “Blended Nation”
Added: 12/10/09, Category: videos

An interview with the author of the book… Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America

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Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America
Added: 12/10/09, Category: books

“What are you? On the 2000 U.S. Census, for the first time, multiracial individuals were allowed to indicate more than one race. Nearly seven million Americans did so. Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America features individuals from this rapidly growing demographic of mixed race Americans across the country who identify as more than one race.”

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A Discussion About Multi-Ethnic Church Staff
Added: 12/09/09, Category: talks

Click here to listen to this resource From the website: How multi-ethnic should your church staff be? Should churches have hiring quotas to ensure diversity? In the spring issue of Leadership, Mark DeYmaz, pastor of Mosaic Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, discusses the importance of being intentional about diversity. In this podcast Skye Jethani , [...]

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Brenda Salter McNeil speaking at CCDA 2001
Added: 12/09/09, Category: talks

Click here to listen to this resource

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Latino in America
Added: 12/09/09, Category: tv & documentary

Please Note: This is not a Christian show but we have included it in our resource section because it contains material that you may find helpful for discussion. There is a good chance you can find this show on television or in your local library. You can also view a large part of this series [...]

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Black in America
Added: 12/09/09, Category: tv & documentary

“Through the personal stories of graduates of the 1968 class of Little Rock Central High School and their sons and grandsons, Soledad O’Brien explores the state of black men in America. O’Brien dispels the myths and examines the disparities between blacks and whites in education, career, economic achievement and the devastating rates of black male incarceration.”

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RichardWestley.com
Added: 12/09/09, Category: websites

Click here to visit this website Richard is on staff with ReNew Partnerships — click here to learn more about him.

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Minimizing stereotypes by developing new relationships
Added: 12/09/09, Category: articles

When we’re trying to build the multicultural church, we need the help of other people. The days of working in our office alone are over. I used to spend two hours or so getting songs ready for Sunday. Now it takes me anywhere from 2-4 weeks because I need to lean on those relationships with people from other ethnicities.

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The gospel and the church is for everyone
Added: 12/09/09, Category: articles

This time in my life really forced me to think about how barriers don’t seem to be an issue during a worship concert, especially when someone popular comes to town. But, then, why do we accept the fact that we have to return to our denominationally/racially divided congregations. Why can’t we continue to worship together?

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Soong-Chan Rah’s Official Site
Added: 12/09/09, Category: websites

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Evangelical Covenant Church
Added: 12/09/09, Category: websites

The Evangelical Covenant Church denomination has been a leader in planting multiethnic churches for more than 20 years. Their intention on starting urban, multicultural churches is one reason Shalla and I decided to plant a covenant church in Columbus, Ohio fall 2010. We’ve been influenced by the leadership of Efrem Smith and Harvey Carey, both [...]

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Evangelical Free Church of America Samaritan Way
Added: 12/09/09, Category: websites

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African American and Cross-Cultural Ministry Annotated Resource Guide by Bob Kellemen
Added: 11/16/09, Category: misc

“Gain insight into over 125 books about African American life. In this forty-one-page annotated bibliography, you will find concise, informative summaries and bibliographical information on recent and classic books related to African Americans—history, life, Christianity, and ministry. Areas of specific focus include slave narratives, slave interviews, slave Christianity, slavery, emancipation, founding fathers of the African American Church, leading women of the African American church, African American church life, African American family life, biblical counseling, soul care, spiritual direction, spirituality, Christian living, multiculturalism, and African American fiction. The vast majority of the books were written by African American authors.”

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Beyond the Suffering by Kellemen and Edwards
Added: 11/14/09, Category: books

“Beyond the Suffering is a deeply moving and helpful book. Kellemen and Edwards clearly describe the legacy of African American soul care and spiritual direction that comes to us beyond the suffering and also because of the suffering African Americans have experienced. I highly recommend Beyond the Suffering as crucial reading for everyone involved in soul care, spiritual direction, and counseling.” — Rev. Dr. Siang­Yang Tan

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In Search of Shalom (2008)
Added: 10/27/09, Category: tv & documentary

“The documentary film In Search of Shalom: White People in Reconciliation is intended to stimulate personal thought and group dialogue on the issues of White people in America facing the challenges of racial reconciliation. It gives voice to White people who have embraced the lifelong journey of reconciliation as they strive to participate in building God’s Kingdom on earth.”

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Standing in the Gap (2008)
Added: 10/27/09, Category: tv & documentary

“Standing in the Gap: Student Voices in Reconciliation features the perspectives of Christian College students as they face the challenges of diversity in Higher Education. Christian Colleges and Universities across the country continue to reflect a predominately White suburban middle class culture, a culture that is also embedded in the structures of the institutions. Critical dialogue as well as intentional action is needed. Standing in the Gap addresses these crucial challenges.”

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Dawn in the Darkness (2009)
Added: 10/27/09, Category: tv & documentary

“The documentary film Dawn in the Darkness addresses the issue of diversity and social justice in the Scriptures by challenging viewers to begin constructing a Biblical paradigm where racial reconciliation and social justice are central to Christian practice and faith. This film reveals how a majority of Evangelical Christian institutions have neglected teaching and practice regarding racial reconciliation, ministry to the poor and social justice.”

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The Color of Church by Rodney M. Woo
Added: 10/07/09, Category: books

“The Color of Church unfolds the story of how God has helped Wilcrest understand the biblical principles of a multiracial church that He progressively revealed in Scripture. Each chapter parallels the biblical model or mandate and the Wilcrest transformation story from a uniracial to a multiracial congregation.”

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A New Day Dawning? by David R. Swartz
Added: 10/07/09, Category: articles

“In Jesus and Justice he does precisely that, circling back to Friday’s injustices, only to return again to Sunday in declaring his confidence in a resurrection of authentic social justice. Switching metaphors, Heltzel concludes that American evangelicalism has matured into a prophetic movement “in a shade of blue-green—blue representing the tragedy of black suffering and green symbolizing the hope of a new social engagement with poverty, AIDS, and the environment.”

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Jesus and Justice by Peter Goodwin Heltzel
Added: 10/07/09, Category: books

Product description from the publisher’s website: This timely book investigates the increasing visibility and influence of evangelical Christians in recent American politics with a focus on racial justice. Peter Goodwin Heltzel considers four evangelical social movements: Focus on the Family, the National Association of Evangelicals, Christian Community Development Association, and Sojourners. The political motives and [...]

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Jesus the Jew in America by Peter Goodwin Heltzel
Added: 10/07/09, Category: articles

Carter’s bold vision stands as a challenge to black and white theological projects alike. He calls black theologians to drop essentialist notions of blackness in order to center their racial critique in what is distinctively Christian about their Christian identity. Carter calls white theologians to confession and repentance; by identifying the idol of whiteness in Christian modernity, white theologians can begin to relinquish their power and privilege through a deep engagement with a prophetic stream of black Christianity that has been rendered invisible in traditional theology.

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Race: A Theological Account by Kameron Carter
Added: 10/07/09, Category: books

We have posted a review of this book on our website as well. Product description from the publisher’s website: In Race: A Theological Account , J. Kameron Carter meditates on the multiple legacies implicated in the production of a racialized world and that still mark how we function in it and think about ourselves. These [...]

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The Barna Group
Added: 10/07/09, Category: websites

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Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Added: 10/07/09, Category: websites

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North American People Groups Project
Added: 10/07/09, Category: websites

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Census Scope
Added: 10/07/09, Category: websites

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And It Is Liz
Added: 10/07/09, Category: websites

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RPM Ministries
Added: 10/07/09, Category: websites

Click here to visit this website Dr. Kelleman provides seminars on… Heroes of Black Church History, Intercultural ministry, and many other topics.

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BuildingChurchLeaders Survival Guide: Ministry to Refugees and Immigrants
Added: 10/07/09, Category: misc

This training tool provided by buildingchurchleaders.com costs $15 through their website. It is a Word Document that contains a variety of resources and handouts.

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The Gospel for iGens by Scot McKnight
Added: 10/07/09, Category: articles

Anyone who vividly sketches a community marked by justice, love, peace, and holiness has a message iGens want to hear. The self hidden behind the castle wall is now interested. And I have found that the self-in-a-castle feels shame about systemic sin, and their sensitivity to things like AIDS, poverty, and racism leads inevitably to recognizing the sin in each person.

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Is Your Baby Racist? by Bronson and Merryman
Added: 10/06/09, Category: articles

For decades, it was assumed that children see race only when society points it out to them. However, child-development researchers have increasingly begun to question that presumption.

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Empowering Communities – Interview with John Perkins
Added: 08/07/09, Category: articles interviews

“We have developed a program called the Voorhees Ave. Leadership House. This is a joint program with Seattle Pacific University. At the house we are taking young black men and adding young white men, primarily from Seattle, who come down and go to school at Jackson State. Jackson State is an all-black school and so the white students become a minority. What we have at the Voorhees Ave. House is a sort of a reconciling community. We are supporting those young blacks and also helping them to overcome their own inferiority, and of course we are helping the whites to overcome their superiority. That’s what that house is for. It is an experiment; it takes time.”

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Christian Community Development 101 by John Perkins
Added: 08/07/09, Category: talks

Dr. John Perkins shares about his background and how God called him to a life of ministering the poor and neglected in our society. He also shares about the fundamentals of Christian Community Development. This is a talk he gave at the CCDA national conference in 2008.

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A Study on Race in the New Testament by William Larkin
Added: 06/30/09, Category: articles

“Racial/ ethnic prejudice was a definite factor in ancient life and thought. Relations among the ethnic groups in an ever expanding Roman empire was a problem to be constantly addressed. And for Christianity with its gospel for all peoples, the barriers of prejudice spawned by pride, fear, and the desire to dominate had to be broken through if the church was to be a faithful expression of the truths on which it was founded.”

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Why is the Church So Segregated? by Brad Bellmore
Added: 06/30/09, Category: articles

One pastor pointed out that merely because we had achieved diversity in the pews didn’t mean we had achieved integration. Segregation might still exist. It’s still easy to avoid people of another race. Many churches have a variety of races represented in the congregation, but they do not interact outside of church. Some have successfully mixed racially in a structured environment—small groups, ministry teams, outreach events. A few churches have held progressive dinners that have had families of various races meeting at each others’ homes to eat.

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Part 1 of 3 – Multi-ethnic Church in the Suburbs? by Chad Brennan
Added: 06/24/09, Category: videos

Chad shares about his background in “the mostly-white suburbs”, the Middle East, and Queens. He presents five types of obstacles that keep Christians divided by ethnicity: cultural differences, sociological, historical, political, and theological. He explains how the early church demonstrates that it is possible to overcome all of these obstacles through the power and leading of the Holy Spirit.

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Part 2 of 3 – Multi-ethnic Church in the Suburbs? by Chad Brennan
Added: 06/24/09, Category: videos

Chad shares about his background in “the mostly-white suburbs”, the Middle East, and Queens. He presents five types of obstacles that keep Christians divided by ethnicity: cultural differences, sociological, historical, political, and theological. He explains how the early church demonstrates that it is possible to overcome all of these obstacles through the power and leading of the Holy Spirit.

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Part 3 of 3 – Multi-ethnic Church in the Suburbs? by Chad Brennan
Added: 06/24/09, Category: videos

Chad shares about his background in “the mostly-white suburbs”, the Middle East, and Queens. He presents five types of obstacles that keep Christians divided by ethnicity: cultural differences, sociological, historical, political, and theological. He explains how the early church demonstrates that it is possible to overcome all of these obstacles through the power and leading of the Holy Spirit.

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Barna Group: America’s Seven Faith Tribes Hold the Key to National Restoration
Added: 06/05/09, Category: articles

“Many of our religious organizations have focused on competing for bodies, dollars and talent rather than upholding core values such as service, obedience, simplicity, purpose, responsibility, accountability, humility, compassion and community. Without our faith tribes playing their historic role as the moral and spiritual leaders of the nation, we have taken our values cues from the political and business sectors. That has lowered the bar on character and vision. That, in turn, has led the nation to deteriorate from a place on unity amidst diversity to a place of individualism amidst competition for personal comfort and supremacy.”

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Multiracial in the Age of Obama By Kyle Waalen
Added: 06/05/09, Category: articles

“Mixed-race people reflect that part of God’s heart which is all about “breaking down the wall of hostility and making the two one.” In our very creation, we represent God’s commitment to reconciliation.”

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Standing with the Desolate by Ziya Meral
Added: 06/05/09, Category: articles

“The question was, where were we who were called to share their pain, to give food and water to Christ’s thirsty and hungry representatives, and to comfort them during their ordeals? So, even though every now and then I wonder how I end up in random places and difficult situations, I know why I am there. I am there as a response to an ethical imperative to love my neighbor as myself.”

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Reconciliation 101 by Alvin Sanders
Added: 06/05/09, Category: books

Written for those who are trying to lead their ministry with reconciliation in mind, Reconciliation 101 offers practical principles to handle real-life problems. In this handbook Alvin Sanders outlines an original model for managing the dynamics of difference within your Christian organization.

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The Coming Integration of the Local Church by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 06/05/09, Category: videos

In this segment, Mark DeYmaz explains why – in an increasingly diverse and cynical society – the gospel will be unintentionally undermined when preached from segregated pulpits and pews.

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It’s Not About Racial Reconciliation! by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 06/05/09, Category: videos

In this segment, Mark DeYmaz explains why a healthy multi-ethnic church must not be focused on racial reconciliation, but on reconciling men and women to God through faith in Jesus Christ; and on reconciling a local congregation of evangelical faith to the principles and practices of first century churches such as existed at Antioch and Ephesus.

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Just the Facts by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 06/05/09, Category: videos

In this segment, Mark DeYmaz explains the facts of local church segregation throughout America today and that the New Testament local church was, in fact, multi-ethnic.

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John 17 – Part 1 of 2 by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 06/05/09, Category: videos

In this segment, Mark DeYmaz begins to establish the New Testament, biblical mandate for the multi-ethnic church by overviewing the prayer of Christ in John 17.

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John 17 – Part 2 of 2 by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 06/05/09, Category: videos

In this segment, Mark DeYmaz continues his exegesis of John 17, pointing out the two (Greek) hima clauses in the passage and their significance in terms of Christ’s prayer that the church be one so the world would know God’s love and believe.

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Acts 11 – Part 1 of 2 by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 06/05/09, Category: videos

In this segment, Mark DeYmaz explains why the early church was slow to understand that the gospel was not just for the Jews.

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Acts 11 – Part 2 of 2 by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 06/05/09, Category: videos

In this segment, Mark DeYmaz explains why the church at Antioch is the most strategic congregation of the New Testament and a model for church planting and development in the the 21st century.

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Acts 13:1 by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 06/05/09, Category: videos

In this segment, Mark DeYmaz explains Acts 13:1 and why Luke describes the leadershp team at Antioch not only by name, but by country of origin.

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Ephesians – Part 1 of 3 by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 06/05/09, Category: videos

In this segment, Mark DeYmaz explains why the book of Ephesians is Paul’s clarion call for diverse believers to walk, work and worship God together as one in and through the local church.

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Ephesians – Part 2 of 3 by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 06/05/09, Category: videos

In this segment, Mark DeYmaz explains the mystery of Christ in Ephesians 3 and the true context of the passage beyond otherwise common misconceptions of interpretation.

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Ephesians – Part 3 of 3 by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 06/04/09, Category: videos

In this segment, Mark DeYmaz explains the context of Ephesians 6 and for what gospel (good news) Paul ultimately gave his life.

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Revelation 2:1-4 by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 06/04/09, Category: videos

In this segment, Mark DeYmaz explains the common, interpreative misconception of this familiar passage and exactly what first love the Ephesian church had left circa 90 A.D.

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Sit Your Nalgas Down! by Mark DeYmaz
Added: 06/04/09, Category: videos

In this segment, Mark DeYmaz explains why the pursuit of cross-cultural competence is not without its lighter moments. Do not miss this hillarious story from the annals of Mosaic’s history!

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Part 5 of 5 – Interview with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah
Added: 04/19/09, Category: interviews videos

Dr. Rah shares…
- there are two different ways we have looked at multi-ethnicity in America… melting pot and salad bowl
- how the dominance of Western, white culture hinders the church’s ability to experience and appreciate ethnic diversity
- suggestions for white Christians who do not understand the reality of white privilege

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Part 4 of 5 – Interview with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah
Added: 04/19/09, Category: interviews videos

Dr. Rah shares…
- books that can help Christian leaders to learn about other cultural perspectives
- suggestions for how we can reach out to other ethnic groups with a “I’ll go to you” mindset rather than a “Come to me” mindset.

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Part 3 of 5 – Interview with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah
Added: 04/19/09, Category: interviews videos

Dr. Rah shares…
- how the growing ethnic minority population in America will have a powerful impact on the values of American society and the church
- how the American church must break free from “white cultural captivity” and work toward a more multi-ethnic church
- suggestions for leaders seeking to build multi-ethnic ministries

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Part 2 of 5 – Interview with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah
Added: 04/19/09, Category: interviews videos

Dr. Rah shares…
- how racism is often thought of as exclusively a “personal issue” — but, the corporate aspect of racism must be recognized and addressed as well
- an example of how the corporate shame of racism was handled in a biblical way

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Part 1 of 5 – Interview with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah
Added: 04/19/09, Category: interviews videos

Dr. Rah shares…
- his background and ministry experience
- about individualism, consumerism, and racism in America
- his advice for someone seeking to start a multi-ethnic church
- About the importance of racially-reconciled communities that exhibit racial justice

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Speaking into the Meltdown by Gordon MacDonald
Added: 03/31/09, Category: articles

“Today’s meltdown may actually force us to deal with the justice question: is it truly Christian for some to live so well while others—not just lazy people—live so unwell. Justice has not been well-taught subject for most of us … until now, possibly.”

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The Power Of One by Israel Houghton
Added: 03/25/09, Category: music

“What if it all depended on me to change the world.
What if my only responsibility was to change the world.
Let me be the one to start a revolution.
Let me sing my song to the people of the world.”

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The Next Evangelicalism by Soong-Chan Rah
Added: 03/12/09, Category: books

“In this book professor and pastor Soong-Chan Rah calls the North American church to escape its captivity to Western cultural trappings and to embrace a new evangelicalism that is diverse and multiethnic. Rah brings keen analysis to the limitations of American Christianity and shows how captivity to Western individualism and materialism has played itself out in megachurches and emergent churches alike. Many white churches are in crisis and ill-equipped to minister to new cultural realities, but immigrant, ethnic and multiethnic churches are succeeding and flourishing.”

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Something the Lord Made (2004)
Added: 03/12/09, Category: movies

Please Note: This is not a Christian movie but we have included it in our resource section because it contains material that you may find helpful for discussion. We recommend reading a review with more information about its moral content before watching this movie or showing it to a group. A brief summary It’s based [...]

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Mustard Seed Associates
Added: 03/11/09, Category: websites

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Interracial Churches
Added: 03/10/09, Category: videos

This PBS video is a compilation of interviews with pastors and Christian leaders around the country. They explain reasons why multi-ethnic congregations are so difficult to build and sustain as well as some of the benefits they have experienced.

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Why Are Churches Segregated?
Added: 03/10/09, Category: videos

A variety of church leaders share why they believe the church continues to be divided by race.

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The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns
Added: 03/10/09, Category: books