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
Culture • Current Conversations An Interview with Five Iron Frenzy’s Micah Ortega Adam Thies | 5 min read Five Iron Frenzy spent eight years making music and capturing the hearts and minds of Christian outsiders: those who felt they didn’t fit with the status quo of their church... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Exegete Your Failures Adam Joyce | 3 min read “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” –Samuel Beckett I have heard the end of this quote bandied about as an axiom recently, “Fail better.”... Continue Reading