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Voices With Ed Stetzer: Framing Critical Race Theory, Part 1
A Note From Ed: The subject of Critical Race Theory is an important conversation today, since many are using the term to mean different things. At the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center, we are committed to help Christians know and engage the culture with biblical discernment, so we are launching a conversation with different views on the subject here at ChurchLeaders.com.
Framing Critical Race Theory
It’s likely you’ve heard the term “Critical Race Theory,” or “CRT” for short, more than a few times in the last couple of months, to say the least. CRT has been brought to the front stage of American culture after a summer of racial turmoil, and because former President Trump issued an executive order banning federal contracts from including the framework in diversity and inclusion training in September 2020.
A Thanksgiving Like None Other
Thanksgiving looks a bit different this year. Whether you’re celebrating alone, with a few close family members, over Zoom, or maybe a combination of all three, I’m sure things don’t feel quite the same. I grieve this loss alongside you, and with millions of others. You are not alone. In my family, and I assume in many of yours, at some point during usual Thanksgiving celebrations, every family member or friend present is invited to share what they are most grateful for on this special holiday.
Global Summit Celebrates the Tenth Anniversary of Diaspora Missions
In 2010, the most representative gathering of Christian leaders from around the world joined together in Cape Town, South Africa for the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. It was this congress that produced the Cape Town Commitment, which represented the convictions brought together by the Global Church. One of the convictions that were brought to the forefront of the world stage was Diaspora missions.
Introducing a Church Planting Residency Plan and Partnersh...
Converge has planted over 752 churches over the past forty years. This past January, at their annual Unleash Conference, they committed to planting another 312 by 2025. And a pandemic and social and political unrest have only emboldened that goal. Barna’s recent research would suggest that church attendance and connection have dropped sharply over the past five months making it difficult to predict the long-term impact of the pandemic.
White Fragility: What Next?
Over the past several weeks, I’ve had the privilege to hear from professors, pastors and church leaders of various backgrounds as we’ve reflected on White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. I am not one of those professors, pastors, or church leaders, though I hold each of them in great esteem. What I am is an adopted Asian-American woman, a recent graduate of Wheaton College, and the newly introduced Managing Editor here at The Exchange.
Pastors Split over Ministry Return Time for Pastors Who Commit Adultery
When a pastor commits adultery, most of their fellow pastors believe they should withdraw from public ministry for at least some time. A new survey of U.S. Protestant pastors by Nashville-based LifeWay Research finds 2% of pastors believe a fellow pastor who has an affair does not need to take any time away. “Scripture doesn’t mince words about adultery,” said Scott McConnell, executive director of LifeWay Research.
White Fragility: A Conversation on Race and Racism Part Two
Last week, we began a robust conversation about Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. With the wide range of responses we’ve received, it has only become clearer that engaging with this popular secular book is vital, particularly as we continue to face social and political unrest surrounding issues of race. As we have reached the conclusion of part one, we are taking a moment to pause and reflect on all of the contributions we’ve had thus far.
White Fragility: “Eat the Meat, Spit Out the Bones”
The murder of George Floyd has surfaced centuries-long racial tensions in American life, and people have started (again) to look for answers about how they might respond. Thus, the leap of Robin DiAngelo’s volume White Fragility up the sales charts to become an #1 overall best seller. The sudden prominence of the book has sparked its own sub-conversation of both praise and protest. In light of all of this, how should we as evangelical Christians think about this volume?
One-on-One with John Kingston on ‘American Awakening’
Today I am pleased to welcome John Kingston, founder of the new venture American Awakening. Kingston is a lawyer and businessman by trade as well as an active social entrepreneur, launching several campaigns and ventures in the past few years. The most recent of these ventures is American Awakening, an immersive entertainment experience to engage the soul of America. Part of this venture is his latest book of the same name, which he discussed with us below.
White Fragility: George Yancey Points a Different Way on Race
In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo sought to explain and combat the anger and defensiveness that many white people allegedly have when discussing race and racism in order to uplift the voices of people of color. Has she achieved this goal? George Yancey considers the issue to have been made worse by DiAngelo’s work and other similar rhetoric. As Yancey writes: “Bottling up the expressions of whites is not the path towards addressing the racial alienation that troubles our society.
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