The Christmas “Jesus from Below”
Last week, I received the following e.mail update from Kris Rocke. I’ve come to respect Kris, who is one of teachers in our FYI Urban Youth Ministry Certificate program…
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Risks by Ethnicity
Anyone who follows statistics knows they can end up distorted. They often end up misquoted and misinterpreted.
Diverse Schools Create Racial Divide
I continue to be fascinated by this Newsweek article on kids and race. In particular, here’s a disturbing excerpt…
Kids Aren’t Colorblind Adults Need to Talk With Them
Irene on our FYI staff team sent me this fascinating Newsweek article on kids and race. It’s long, but worth the read. Highlights for me…
Who Gets to Swim?
Not black kids; not in this pool in Philadelphia. Even if they’ve paid up.
You may have seen this in the news last week, but in case you missed it, a summer camp contracted with a private…
Racism’s Unseen Injustices
Yesterday I caught an article detailing a fascinating chronicle of an unlikely justice-seeker’s journey in the academic research realm…
Segregated Proms
I guess I’m still a bit naive about the racial divide here in the U.S. I had no idea that there was still such a thing as segregated Senior Proms but the New York Times ran an
Justice in the Village
Last week I took my eight year-old son, Nathan, to Chinatown in Los Angeles for Chinese New Year Festivities. I had never seen a real “Dragon Parade” live and Nathan and I got a kick out of the dragons, the…
Being White Doug Schaupp on Race Relations in Life and Ministry
Recently Doug Schaupp, co-author of Being White: Finding our Place in a Multiethnic World and a regional director for InterVarsity campus ministries, trained a local group of youth workers through our Los Angeles Youth Ministry Network on race relationships and moving beyond talk of “reconciliation” to actively building justice in our lives and ministries.
Hoping for Unity
The day that Barack Obama was elected President, a noose was hung from a tree on the campus of Baylor University. In case you don’t know, Baylor is a Christian university.
This past week, teenagers in our youth ministry have…