I'm white and have an adopted black son who is nine years old. How can I help him embrace his identity as a person of color when he has and does grow up in a white world? I have made a lot of effort to expand his experiences but it is difficult since he was adopted from birth and only knows two white parents.
We have a situation at our family gatherings where one particular family member consistently makes racist comments or jokes. As a Kingdom person, how should I think about balancing love and empathy for this family member while also wanting to address the inappropriateness of this pattern? What would a christ-like response look like?
Let’s start with the biblical data related to this question. On the one hand, it appears that God initially gave humans (as well as the entire animal kingdom) plants to eat, and in the vision of the future Kingdom revealed to Isaiah, it appears that humans, as well as all animals, will return to eating only plants.
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