Race and Reconciliation-A New Chapter

Why racial justice and reconciliation must now be core to our beliefs

Evangelicals or those we like to refer to as “followers of Jesus” are sensitive to what we call “God moments”—when circumstances fall together in a way that suggests God is at work in our lives in a fresh way. These believers who are part of North America’s dominant society have experienced collective “God moments.”

In the 1970s, few churches concerned themselves with the relief of world hunger. Then Ron Sider wrote Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, and before long, we just assumed that Jesus followers should be concerned about hunger.

Before the U.S. Supreme Court decision that’s become kn...