Ethnicity in the Mission of God – Panel

Individuals from Sri Lanka, South Africa and Rwanda share their experience of ethnic conflict. The panel identifies the role of the churches in response to ethnic conflict. Download Options PC users: Right click a link and choose “Save as” toRead more…

Reconciliation – Racial Reconciliation

Brenda Salter McNeil reflects on racial reconciliation. Download Options PC users: Right click a link and choose “Save as” to download file. Mac users: Command click and “Save link as” to download file. Download Video (Small MP4) Download Video (LargeRead more…

Ethnicity In The Mission Of God – Wales

Using the example of Wales in the United Kingdom, Menna Machreth shows how Christian faith can help to preserve and promote culture, language and ethnic identity. Download Options PC users: Right click a link and choose “Save as” to downloadRead more…

Healing the Wounds of Ethnic Conflict

Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Rhiannon Lloyd, Joseph Nyamutera and Anastase Sabamungu as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Peace to the Nations: Ethnicity in theRead more…

“Love your [ethnic] neighbor as yourself”

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…

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…

Paradigms of Ethnicity

Five Paradigms of Ethnicity There are hints of ethical ideas in the words ’positive’ and ’negative’ in these titles and I have drawn from these two basic concepts in developing the following five paradigms. Please offer comments on any orRead more…