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Editorial
TODD WILSON
The Center for Pastor Theologians exists to equip pastors to be theologians for today’s complex world. That’s our mission, and it’s one we believe in strongly. All the more so these days, as we’re confronted on an almost daily basis with reminders that the world in which we live is indeed stunningly complex.
Consider the death of George Floyd. It is criminal when a white officer digs his knee into an African American’s neck, snuffing out his life. But it is also complex.
There is, to be sure, nothing subtle or complex about the unvarnished brutality of killing a man with persistent force. That is simple and straightforward, not to mention tragic and appalling. But George Floyd’s death is, at the same time, highly complex in what it reveals about the reality of race in America. (The same could be said of the deaths of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery or the shooting of Jacob Blake).
The truth is that race is a complex issue. And race in America—and in the American church—is surely among the most complex of issues we confront today…
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Articles
Costly Love in an Age of Virtue (Signaling)
PHIL ANDERAS
Racism and the Church: How Should We Respond?
DENNIS HOLLINGER
Is Racial Reconciliation a “Gospel Issue"
PHIL ANDERAS
Podcast Episodes
Race and the Humanity of Jesus
CHERITH FEE NORDLING
I Can’t Breathe
CHARLIE DATES
Race and the Politics of Reckoning
VINCENT BACOTE
Book Reviews
The Cross and the Lynching Tree | James H. Cone
Reviewed by: BENJ PETROELJE
How to Be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi
Reviewed by: JADY KOCH
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America | Michael Eric Dyson
Reviewed by: DAVID HUNSICKER
Providence, Race, and Formation: Reflections on The Christian Imagination by Willie James Jennings
Reviewed by: JOEL LAWRENCE
Sermons
The Triune God in Desperate Times
BENJ PETROELJE
Race and the Gospel: Part 1 – Faith
MICHAEL LEFEBVRE
Race and the Gospel: Part 2 – Love
MICHAEL LEFEBVRE
