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Updated: You can watch the recording of this forum here. A few weeks ago my friend Kurt Owens reached out to me about joining a panel discussion of pastors from The Milwaukee Declaration discussing race in America in light of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd. After extremely positive responses to that first …
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A couple weeks ago, a friend and former ministry resident at Eastbrook Church, Robert Larry, shared some of his thoughts with me on what it's like to be a black man and Christian at this time in our nation. After sharing those thoughts with me, I asked him if he would be willing to share …
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A few weeks ago my friend Kurt Owens reached out to me about joining a panel discussion of pastors from The Milwaukee Declaration discussing race in America in light of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd. After extremely positive responses to that first conversation, we decided to continue with follow-up conversations (Watch "part …
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Last October I traveled down to Wheaton College to hear Jemar Tisby deliver a lecture, "What is the Color of Compromise?", as part of a series hosted by the Center for Applied Christian Ethics. Tisby is the author of The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism and one of the …
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Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:2) The church cannot be silent about the current situation. These days have especially brought into focus the reality of racial injustice and taking of African American lives made in the image of God and valuable to him, most …
Matthew Erickson 