Hace años había un dicho muy común: ” Los blancos tienen razón. Si eres negro, aléjate. Si eres moreno, quédate cerca”. Es ofensivo, pero habla de varios marcos relacionados con el mundo establecido y preservado por las costumbres y los valores de la supremacía blanca. El dicho sugiere que hay una aceptación generalizada de ideas, […]
by Nicholas Eše Hemeo’o Arroyave-Howling Crane and Christopher C. Thompson | 13 April 2023 | There was a saying that was common years ago: “White is right. Black, get back. If you’re brown, hang around.” It’s offensive but it speaks to several frameworks related to the world established and curated by white supremacist mores and […]
by Christopher C. Thompson Here’s the disclaimer: I haven’t watched the video. As a matter of fact, I don’t think I have watched one of those videos since 2016 when Philando Castile was murdered in cold blood on camera by a trigger-happy police officer by the name of Jeronimo Yanez. And now we have another […]
A finales de 2021 se produjo un fascinante escándalo religioso en Internet y las redes sociales. El Dr. Yitzhak Y. Melamed, profesor de filosofía de la Universidad Johns Hopkins, publicó en Facebook una carta que había recibido de la sinagoga portuguesa (la Esnoga) de Ámsterdam. El Dr. Melamed había escrito a la sinagoga solicitando permiso […]
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 5 January 2023 | Towards the end of 2021, a fascinating religious drama played out on the internet and social media. Dr. Yitzhak Y. Melamed, a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, posted to Facebook a letter he received from the Portuguese synagogue (the Esnoga) in Amsterdam. Dr. Melamed had […]
¿Has participado alguna vez en un desfile de Navidad o recitado un mensaje de Pascua? Si lo ha hecho, entonces apreciará la historia que tengo que contarle. Cuando yo crecía en la Primera Iglesia Bautista Africana de Beaufort, Carolina del Sur, organizábamos comúnmente desfiles de Navidad, recitábamos discursos de Semana Santa y ese tipo […]
by Christopher C. Thompson | 23 December 2022 | Did you ever participate in a Christmas pageant or recite an Easter speech? If you have, then you’ll appreciate the story I have to tell you. When I was growing up in the First African Baptist Church in Beaufort, South Carolina, we commonly had Christmas pageants, […]
Hace aproximadamente 2.000 años, Jesús dijo: “El reino de Dios no es algo que pueda verse” (Lc. 17:20 TLA). Es como si estas palabras fueron dichas teniendo el año 2022 en mente. Cristo nos desafía con la seguridad de que el Reino de los Cielos es realmente inminente. Sólo que no se va a manifestar […]
by Carl McRoy & Christopher C. Thompson | 20 October 2022 | It was roughly 2,000 years ago that Jesus said, “God’s kingdom is coming, but not in a way that you will be able to see with your eyes” (Lk. 17:20 NCV). It is as if these words were spoken with the year 2022 […]
La primera parte de esta semana la pasé en una conferencia con pastores adventistas comprometidos con el compromiso comunitario y el trabajo enfocado en la justicia social. Fue un momento estimulante estar rodeado de líderes con ideas afines que no se conforman con modelos anticuados y una apariencia de que las cosas funcionan. No había […]
by Christopher C. Thompson | 13 August 2022 | I spent the first part of this week at a conference with Adventist pastors who are committed to community engagement and social justice work. It was an invigorating time to be surrounded by like-minded leaders who are not satisfied with broken models and a semblance of […]
by Samuel Jeudin & Christopher C. Thompson | 9 June 2022 | One of the greatest failures of the Christian church is that we spend so much time preaching that we haven’t cultivated the ability to listen. Given the depth and pervasive tragedies and injustices in our world, this failure borders on egregious, and in […]
