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Don’t frame poverty as black
Another lesson white faces like ours needed to learn was to avoid the kind of framing in which the poor of the world are symbolized by Black faces. Often emaciated. Often “African.” It’s not accurate, as well as not fair. It’s the opposite of justice. The youthful energy, the entrepreneurial activity, the artistic creativity in…
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Salad bowl not melting pot
The image we might prefer for the Bible’s portrait of the nations is not a melting pot (in which differences are blended together into a sinle allow) but a salad bowl (in which ingredients preserve their distinctive colour, texture and taste.) The new creation will preserve the rich diversity of the original creation, but be…