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Why Black evangelicals often look beyond any one institution—even beloved ones—to meet their full needs of discipleship.


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Similarities between the African American and Jewish experience can help us think biblically about human dignity.


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One moment we’re singing their praises; the next we’re questioning everything. Maybe we’re asking the wrong things of them.

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