Slow to Speak: 3 Ways White People Can Practice Listening
When it comes to issues of race, we can listen, take time to reflect, and then form a thoughtful response or question. But the listening must come first.
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Category: Cross-Cultural
Colorblind No More
I’m not colorblind anymore. I see the differences, I celebrate the diversity, and I speak up when I see or hear someone being treated badly.
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I Was Wrong About Race
I’ve been working to educate myself on what racism is, why we still have racial injustice in our country and what my role in healing that can be.
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Seeing Asylum Seekers as Messengers of God
I remember my face was sunburnt, having already spent hours in the heat at the very southern tip...
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Book Review: Cora Cooks Pancit
Cultural representation in children’s books matters. I highly recommend Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore’s Cora Cooks Pancit. Read this with your child so that together you can grow in your sensitivity, understanding and awareness of your own culture and others.
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Cross-Cultural Friendships Are Part of A Life on Mission
If we can expand our views of home, food and time, we will grow deeper and more intimate in our friendships across cultures.
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Racial Solidarity Must Be At The Heart Of Cross-Cultural Friendships
Racial solidarity begins with a true, gospel-rooted love for one’s neighbor, and our pursuit of cross-cultural friendships must be involved, engaged, and proactive in this call.
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Unexpected Friendship in a Cup of Cold Water
I have learned that sometimes friendships are forged unexpectedly, and we are often richer when we embrace the awkward and discover what we have in common.
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Cross-Cultural Friendships Begin With Food
The best way to begin building cross-cultural friendships is to invite someone – whether it be your neighbor, coworker or fellow church attendee – over for a meal.
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A Theology of Cross-Cultural Friendships
God created cross-cultural friendships forour good, for our healing, for our joy and for His glory.
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Not Another Colorblind Christmas
It’s time for us to declare that we will not accept a colorblind Christmas anymore. It’s time for us Christians to live and breathe and speak and act like we are Christmas people.
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Jesus is a King for all People
Jesus is not white. But it’s also important to realize that Jesus, our King, transcends skin color too. He is a king for all people.
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