Culture • Current Conversations Lines in the Sand Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read • “The man who said ‘I’d rather be lucky than good’ saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck.... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Learning to Listen Adam Joyce | 5 min read A few weeks ago Missio was busy with a set of articles on privilege and cultural blinders—how people of privilege, especially Christians with privilege, are often unaware of how their privilege... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations The False Shalom of Colorblindness Chuck Liu | 5 min read Growing up in a predominantly white church, I learned about vertical reconciliation from a very young age. Felt storyboards and youth group retreats all taught about Jesus’ reconciliation of humanity... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Hidden Assumptions and Minorities’ Burdens Sam Tsang | 5 min read “We’re all Christians. I don’t think we should think in terms of racial identity.” The longer I live as a minority in America, the less I agree with this idea. The fact is that it’s easy to say that as a member of the dominant culture. Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations An Appeal for Cultural Humility Jody Wiley Fernando | 6 min read In the wake of a Facebook post that offended many Asian American believers, Jody Wiley Fernando asks whether American majority culture evangelicals can gain not more finely tuned cultural competencies, but rather adopt a posture of cultural humility. Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Proximate Justice, Again and Again Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read Making peace with proximate justice? Several years ago I was asked by a magazine editor to write an essay on the vocation of politics. I thought about it over a... Continue Reading
