Comments on: Mixed-Race Kids, the Church, and the Blessing of Manasseh and Ephraim https://esaumccaulley.com/2017/06/19/mixed-race-kids-the-church-and-the-blessing-of-manasseh-and-ephraim/ Exploring New Testament Scholarship, Anglicanism, and the Black Experience Sat, 19 Aug 2017 12:18:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jdunderwood https://esaumccaulley.com/2017/06/19/mixed-race-kids-the-church-and-the-blessing-of-manasseh-and-ephraim/comment-page-1/#comment-324 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 12:18:07 +0000 http://esaudmccaulley.wordpress.com/?p=1624#comment-324 Reblogged this on Jen Underwood and commented:
Please check out not only this article but Esau McCaulley’s blog as a whole. I had the privilege earlier this summer of hearing him speak on racial reconciliation. His voice, crying out for racial reconciliation in the Church, needs to be listened to.

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]]> By: Esau McCaulley https://esaumccaulley.com/2017/06/19/mixed-race-kids-the-church-and-the-blessing-of-manasseh-and-ephraim/comment-page-1/#comment-304 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 19:47:06 +0000 http://esaudmccaulley.wordpress.com/?p=1624#comment-304 I’ll be speaking there!

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]]> By: Betsy https://esaumccaulley.com/2017/06/19/mixed-race-kids-the-church-and-the-blessing-of-manasseh-and-ephraim/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 19:41:48 +0000 http://esaudmccaulley.wordpress.com/?p=1624#comment-303 Esau, I am so thankful I came across your writing. I’m a new member in the Anglican church, and the lack of multi-ethnicity and people of color in the ACNA bothers me the most when, for me, so much else comes together in the Anglican tradition that I truly value like liturgy, church calendar, sacraments. There are some good things starting to happen in our parish in building relationships across racial and cultural lines but I long for so much more. Hope you’ll be making it to Provincial Assembly!

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]]> By: BrookeM https://esaumccaulley.com/2017/06/19/mixed-race-kids-the-church-and-the-blessing-of-manasseh-and-ephraim/comment-page-1/#comment-302 Wed, 21 Jun 2017 19:57:23 +0000 http://esaudmccaulley.wordpress.com/?p=1624#comment-302 I so agree with you! I grew up in southern Alabama in an early “mega-church” that was 99% white. I had spent part of my childhood on an army base in Japan, so I had gotten used to everything (and everyone) being multi-ethnic, so I was always deeply bothered by the racial split among churches in my city. Then, I went to college in New Orleans and saw more of the same. Later, after getting married, I moved to Cincinnati and, for the first time, I belonged to a church that was split about half and half between African Americans and whites. I felt like I was finally breathing fresh air for the first time. Now, I’m back in the south–SW Florida–and back to racially divided churches. It makes my heart so sad. I find joy, though, in leading a kids ministry on Sunday nights in a diverse neighborhood–Hispanic, white and black children in almost equal proportions come together to play with each other and to learn about God together. I wish ALL churches looked like that!

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