February 23, 2021
My dream has always been to live in a house full of books. I saw one of those rolling library-ladders in a movie when I was a kid and always dreamed of riding on one someday. My dad is a professor, and I loved visiting his office and looking at all the books on his shelf. They signified a curiosity for truth and an arrival at maturity. Growing up, I collected my own bookshelves and occasionally just stare at the books on them for inspiration.
My books have surrounded me, comforted me and helped me interpret life. As a Christian, my books have also helped me make sense of Christ. They’ve taught me truths of the Bible and aided in interpreting tricky chapters or books. As I crossed the stage and took a degree in theology at graduation, I was fairly confident in my beliefs in large part because of the books on my bookshelf.
Read the rest of our March coverage of multicultural churches: Korie Little Edwards looks at how far the movement has come and how far it has to go, and Michael J. Rhodes unpacks prejudice in the early Corinthian church.
Evelyn Perez tried to share her trauma. Five years ago, she met every week with a small group of women whom she calls “great people” at her large nondenominational church in the San Francisco Bay Area. She told the group of mostly white women, plus two other women of color, that her marriage had grown dangerous. The relationship was breaking down, and her husband was physically and emotionally abusive.
Savannah pastors seek innovative ways to foster multicultural worship and ministry
Rachel Cleveland, For Beacon Magazine
Published
8:03 am UTC Feb. 10, 2021
Beacon Magazine and the Savannah Morning News explore the effects of race and class discrimination in Savannah institutions and offer solutions to overcoming the obstacles that divide us.
When asked about the moral obligation of integration, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously responded, “I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation…that eleven o’clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours…in Christian America.”
More than half a century later, Christian America strives in fits and starts to fulfill Dr. King’s call to racial integration within the church; to bring people of many races and cultures together within one congregation.