Race and racism are closely related, but very different in their meaning, said John Suk, in Creation and/or Evolution.
Race describes a certain kind of person. It s part of God s plan for the world, wrote Suk. We sing, "Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight." But, said Suk, if we add only three letters to the word race, then we have something hideous. Racism is believing that "Red and yellow, black and white, but only one is precious in his sight."
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J. Daryl Charles
While cities and states have been struggling to adapt to life amid the coronavirus, it is possible that another pandemic afflicts American society in even greater proportions. For this reason, it is difficult to overstate the timeliness of a recent collection of essays edited by Gerald R. McDermott:
Race and Covenant: Recovering the Religious Roots for American Reconciliation (Acton Institute Press, 2020). The essays comprising this volume issue from a February 2019 conference at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, that boldly, yet in a faithfully Christian manner, dared honestly to assess race relations in America.
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