Comments on: Let Justice Roll Down like Waters

By: Lucinda Miller

Lucinda Miller — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 14:10:45 +0000

In reply to Holly. Holly, thank you for sharing this. I appreciated what Andy Stanley has to say very much.

By: Lucinda Miller

Lucinda Miller — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:02:13 +0000

In reply to RA. I am not sure. I wondered the same thing.

By: Lucinda Miller

Lucinda Miller — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:01:24 +0000

In reply to Wendy Weaver.

I love that you mark “human.” I always resent just a little having to answer that question…as though that somehow decides my identity… so maybe I will also write “human” in the future.

By: Wendy Weaver

Wendy Weaver — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 11:54:21 +0000

Last Saturday, a young man from our youth ministry in the city spent the afternoon at our place. He’s a calm, gentle, quiet, thoughtful young man with beautiful nut-brown skin and a mop of curly black hair. As I contemplated with horror that what if something like the recent happenings should happen to him, I felt incensed, livid. I pray and I talk about Jesus, and I hope that someday soon our churches are filled with many shades of brown… (One of my small things that allows me to breathe, is that I always mark the blank “Race” on documents with “Human” and qualify that there is only one race, and I belong to it. God has made of one blood all nations, and I love thinking about how someone can give/receive the same few types of blood no matter what shade their skin is. (How much or how little melanin our genes tell us to produce…)

By: Holly

Holly — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 10:41:42 +0000

As a child in a white city that was quickly becoming more racially mixed, I witnessed racism. It was when I married a man from another race, though, that I really became aware of how widespread the issue was, how many people it affected and how much ongoing pain it caused.

This past Sunday, in an unusual sermon, Andy Stanley addressed the issue of racism. He is clear, compelling and brief. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Osxas0kMDk

By: RA

RA — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 22:28:51 +0000

Is Ludlow Walker still living? I believe he held revivals at our church in 2004. Your mention of him made me wonder.

By: Arla

Arla — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:46:48 +0000

Thanks for this Luci. You found a way to say this. My raising in that same rural community produced in me wonderful innocence and unhelpful ignorance, too.
My parents bought the farm where I lived my entire childhood from an older, retired black couple. And we visited Mrs. Madre regularly in the rest home until she went to be with Jesus. I didn’t have a clue that we should veiw her as different from any of the rest of us.

By: Katrina Weaver

Katrina Weaver — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:53:19 +0000

Timely post! Thanks for sharing your personal experience. My brother is very dark. Looks almost biracial. He has experienced some of the same things you write about. It angers me when my brother talks about what people say to… but let’s remember there is One who loves us all the same. Color is just skin deep.

By: Marian Beaman

Marian Beaman — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 12:34:14 +0000

Timely post with an experience much like my own, growing up among white Mennonites in rural Pennsylvania. However, I have had a rich heritage of inclusion as I highlight in a long ago post of my Aunt Ruthie and her care for immigrants and refugees of all colors of the skin rainbow: https://marianbeaman.com/2017/12/13/grandma-bedroom-holy-family-refugees/