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Introduction The vast majority of Germans belonged to a Christian church during the Nazi era. In 1933 there were 40 million Protestants, 20 million Catholics, and small numbers of people adhering to other Christian traditions. The German Evangelical Church (the largest Protestant church) and the Roman Catholic church were pillars of German society and played an important role in shaping people’s attitudes and actions vis-à-vis National Socialism, including anti-communism, nationalism, traditional loyalty to governing authorities (particularly among Protestants), and the convergence of Nazi antisemitism with widespread and deep-seated anti-Jewish prejudice. Within the German Evangelical Church the pro-Nazi “German Christian” ( Deutsche Christen) movement emerged in the early 1930s. It attempted to fuse Christianity and National Socialism and promoted a “racially-pure” church by attacking Jewish influences on Christianity. This attempt to nazify the primary Pr ....
Black Grace Part 2 A Black Pastor’s Journey into the Content of Grace. (Read Part 1 here.) Black Grace is my heritage. I grew up in the home of a Black pastor, who proudly pastored a Black church in a white denomination. Looking back, I realize my father quietly protested the forensic grace espoused by the Church. No, he didn’t write about it, didn’t preach about it, and didn’t even talk about it in our home. His protest was in the grace-filled sermons he preached, the grace-filled life he lived, and his refusal to allow the churches he led to traffic in the forensic grace of the denomination. He himself was a product of Black Grace. Being born during the most radical period of American racism, in one of the ghettos of Chattanooga, Tennessee, he knew first-hand the dehumanizing effect of a graceless society. He saw his father treated like a boy working for a local drug store as a deliveryman, even though he was a World War I veteran with a wife and seven children ....