If we seek to apply the biblical axiom ’love your neighbor as yourself’ to ethnic communities, then we can phrase it ’love your ethnic neighbor as yourself’. This fundamental idea of scripture, indeed the second command next only to lovingRead more…
Ethnic identity and attachment to land
I was listening to From Our Own Correspondent on BBC radio the other day when an item on the constitutional referendum in Kenya was featured. As I expected much of the item focused on the potential for ethnic conflict resultingRead more…
Part 3 of 3: The Great Misconception
The Local Implication What are the ethnodoxological principles that apply to both the pew and the mission field? I propose that we start with these: – Music is not a universal language—our responses to music are learned, not intrinsic. –Read more…
Christian Identity vs Ethnic Identity
Ethnic Identity Vs Christian Identity in North East India My ethnic Blood is stronger than the Blood of Jesus Christ. The Water of Baptism is too thin to clean my thickly stained ethnic blood. Caught up in theRead more…
Peace To The Nations (Zechariah 9:10)
Brilliant, brilliant paper that was. The use of references in between made the paper very clear. The questions towards the end also gave me a reason to joggle my mind. The questions that stood out for me were: ü ShouldRead more…
A Great Misconception-Music the Universal Language – Part 2 of 3
[continued from Part 1] We Went, We Sang, We Conquered… During the 19th and 20th centuries, as Western and European Christians went out around the world, they were influenced by the prevalent philosophies of their home cultures, such as culturalRead more…
Diversidad Etnica y El Reino de Dios
Que hermoso es saber que para nuestro Señor no existen las fronteras. me encanta pensar en que junto al Señor podemos lograr una unidad que sobrepasa los limites humanos. ahora mi comentario va relacionado con el ultimo punto, creo queRead more…
Babel, Pentecost and the Blessing of Diversity
The Story of the Bible has an interesting shape. It starts talking about the relationship between God and all of humanity, tracing creation and then the fall. Then for a long, long section The Story only concentrates on one nation,Read more…
Heeding a “View from the other side of the globe”
On the one year anniversay of the Sept 11 terrorist attack, a leading Sri Lankan evangelist named Ajith Fernando wrote an open letter to Christians in the USA. He sensitively and powerfully delivered an urgent message that he called, “ARead more…
Paradigms of ethnicity and power
In his excellent piece on the 5 paradigms of ethnicity RCW seems to imply that those who espouse the 3 paradigms focussing on globalism are able to imagine or envisage a world without ethnic identity. However, if historical precedentRead more…