The biblical doctrine of human depravity is a great antidote to racism. I have seen this recently in two very different articles. One is by Andrew Walls called "The Evangelical Revival, the Missionary Movement, and Africa" (The Missionary Movement in Christian History, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, pp. 79-101). He points out that the Great Awakening in America and England (1730s and '40s) gave rise to the modern foreign missionary movement. One of the ways it did so was by clarifying the unity between the sinful homeland and the sinful heathen.
Continue reading John Piper Reflects On MLK Day.
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If education is truly the 
November's unemployment rate 
An act of civil disobedience 55 years ago -- Rosa Parks' refusal to move
to the back of a city bus -- made the seamstress in Montgomery,
Alabama, a pivotal symbol in America's civil rights movement.
The
specter of newspaper journalists losing their jobs is not visually on
par with television depictions of closing manufacturing plants or
grimacing blue-collar workers. Yet, the journalism industry continues to
face job loses. According to a new report released by the National
Association of Black Journalists, Black journalists have suffered a
significant decline in America's Newsrooms in recent years.
Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to
integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation's first major battle
over school segregation, has died. He was 68.
Walter Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor from Oakland, died Sunday. He was 61.
