by John D. Pierce | Jun 2, 2020 | Opinion
Decades ago, at my home church, the pastoral prayer would be followed by the choir’s soft refrain: “Hear our prayer, O Lord, hear our prayer, O Lord; incline thine ear to us, and grant us thy peace.” Those long-buried words were resurrected from memory during early...
by Martin Saunders | May 14, 2020 | Opinion
It has taken me 40 years to accept my privilege as a white, middle-class man. I hated this idea. Hated it. Because I’ve always prided myself on something – that I am a good guy, one of the proverbial good guys in fact. I help other people. I empower women and people...
by Jonathan Langley | May 13, 2020 | Opinion
“I have the power!” is a quote not brought up often enough at the Global Leadership Summit or in the Harvard Business Review. It seems to me the definitive quote on power relations considered through a Marxist, feminist, post-colonial or Christian lens. It was, of...
by Jakob Topper | Nov 6, 2019 | Opinion
Privilege is a wall that protects the privileged from the inequity in the world. This is one of the insights revealed in Jesus’ parable about the unjust judge in Luke 18:1-8. Conventional wisdom suggests judges are fair and impartial, but Jesus illustrates that this...
by Naomi King Walker | Nov 1, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Feb. 28, 2011. At the time of publication, Walker was music/worship pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Frankfort, Kentucky. Hierarchical paradigms shape our thinking about the world in which we live. We tend to view...
