by Jon Pratt | Jul 31, 2020 | In the Nick of Time
Who is qualified to participate in a discussion about race in the church? JP: When I first contacted Emmanuel and asked him to consider writing about this issue of race in the church, he graciously agreed to do so with one condition: that a White person join the...
by Jon Pratt | Jul 24, 2020 | In the Nick of Time
For the past two weeks, we have heard from Pastor Emmanuel Malone as he has answered several questions related to the issue of race in our American culture generally and then in our evangelical church culture particularly. We learned about the danger of minimizing...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 17, 2020 | In the Nick of Time
Edmund Burke, in his Reflections on the Revolution in France, spoke of the “unbought grace of life.” What he meant was that we receive from our forebears a patrimony of ideas, perspectives, habits, attitudes, and sensibilities that together make life more...
by Jon Pratt | Jul 10, 2020 | In the Nick of Time
We welcome back Emmanuel Malone as he answers three more race-related questions with the goal of seeking understanding in regard to race relations and the church. Q: As a part of the majority culture, how do White Christians display racist attitudes toward minorities,...
by Jon Pratt | Jul 2, 2020 | In the Nick of Time
In the most recent Nick of Time essay, Kevin Bauder introduced the subject of race relations based upon a recent conversation he had with his African-American friend, Simon. Kevin ended his article by posing two questions: 1) What should we do with the perceptions...
by Kevin Bauder | Jun 26, 2020 | In the Nick of Time
After two days of the rioting in Minneapolis, I had occasion to visit with a friend—I’ll call him Simon. Simon is nearly my age and has recently retired from two simultaneous careers: as a police detective and as a platoon sergeant in the National Guard, with whom he...
