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Ministers of Reconciliation: Preaching on Race and the Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

How to Talk About Race. Race is one of the most pressing issues of our time; How should pastors tackle it from the pulpit? In this collection of essays, issues of race and ethnicity are explored from a variety of perspectives, offering guidance to pastors on how to address those topics in their own contexts. Each builds on a foundational passage of Scripture. With contributions from Bryan...

on God himself. It is to say that God hasn’t created the races with care and intention in mothers’ wombs. An assault on the image bearer is always an assault on the image giver. Pastors, in preaching this passage, would do well to apply Psalm 139’s rich description of God’s care in crafting human bodies in both individual and social ways. Our weary, burden-laden people need to hear that our identities are rooted not in our socioeconomic status or party affiliation or career success but in the truth
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