Racial Reconciliation: Ramos & Kinoshita at PRISMmag
“They” say that PRISM magazine’s web site will be updated and re-launched soon. But the site is still not up. So with the permission of the editor, here are PDFs of two articles from the recent issue.
Abner Ramos: Building The Bridge: A young Latino leader seeks the high (and hard) road to racial reconciliation
Glen Kinoshita: On Earth As It Is In Heaven: A conversation with Adam Edgerly and Ken Fong, pastors of churches that uphold racial reconciliation as a core value
Ramos and Kinoshita are two good men, and I’m proud to call them friends. Abner is an Intervarsity Christian Fellowship campus director for East Los Angeles College, and also works on the Intervarsity’s La Fe national Latino initiative. Glen is the director of multiethnic programs at Biola University. Kudos to Kristyn Komarnicki for reeling them in.
By the way, while I was in Canada I heard PRISM founder Ron Sider on his new book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience. One thing he said stuck with me: As it relates to our giving practices, Christians are disobedient. Disobedient. Of all of the critiques, barbs, jabs, and challenges regarding Christianity and wealth, that stuck for me. I also think it will preach. No one wants to think that they’ve been disobedient. A challenge on ideological grounds can be explained away. But a simple old “you are disobedient” sticks. It’s like telling someone, “You’re wrong” and leaving it at that. It sticks in your conscience. I think I’ve been disobedient in the area of giving, and it’s not a fact that I can blame on someone else or deflect toward some other, more pressing issue. No, I’ve been disobedient. And the remedy is to start being obedient.
posted Sep 22, 2006, 7:07pm by Rodolpho Carrasco
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