Tag Archives: urban faith

Real Girls in a Photoshopped World

public

Ron Tinsley:

A 14-year-old student’s protest against the unrealistic bodies of models in teen fashion magazines leads to a mini-revolution. But can it tamp down our culture’s obsession with idealized and overly sexual images in the media?

via Real Girls in a Photoshopped World | Urban Faith.

Related posts:

  1. All Girls Allowed Chai Ling, a Tiananmen Square student protester in 1989, is on a mission: RESCUE victims of the One-Child Policy through...
  2. The Real Culture War is Over Capitalism THE REAL CULTURE WAR is over Capitalism: Advocates of free enterprise must learn from the growing grass-roots protests and make...
  3. (photo) Teen girls throw bread to men, women and children on the Migrant Train in southern Mexico A friend sent me this image. The girls on the left are throwing bread to men, women and children on...

An Incomplete Theology

public, ,

Anthony Bradley:

If evangelism alone were effective for social change, Christians would never have participated in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, been slave owners, created apartheid in South Africa, or allowed Jim Crow laws to come into existence.

via An Incomplete Theology | Urban Faith.

Related posts:

  1. Biola a National Leader in Theology Degrees for Minority Students From a Biola press release: Biola University is one of the nation’s leaders in awarding theology degrees to undergraduate minority...
  2. The future of Black Theology Anthony Bradley: Black theology has a future only if it presupposes the triune God and seeks to interpret the black...
  3. This conference was a game changer in how I view theology, economics and urban ministry Back in the 1990s I attended my first Acton Institute conference. It was in San Juan Capistrano at a weekend...

Pastor on the Roof

public, ,

Pastor on the Roof | Urban Faith

Catherine Newhouse:

Pastor Corey Brooks has been living on the roof of a dilapidated motel building for seven weeks, coming down only when another young black male from his neighborhood dies.

Brooks, pastor of New Beginnings Church on Chicago’s Southside, just officiated his twelfth funeral for a young black male in the past year. His church is in the middle of two violent neighborhoods, Englewood and Woodlawn, which have seen an increasing number of homicides. The murder rate rose about 40 percent in the past year in Englewood, and about 30 percent in Woodlawn.

It was this violence that drove Brooks to the roof. Gunfire erupted at the tenth funeral in November, and after that incident, Brooks decided to take more drastic action. He vowed to fundraise $450,000 to knock down the vacant Super Motel across the street and build a community development center.

He envisions the center as two buildings: one with a community focus — including classrooms, a music and TV studio for youth and Christian counseling services — and the other with an economic development focus—including restaurants on the first floor and a few floors of mixed income housing.

Brooks has fundraised more than half his goal and has until March 30 to purchase the land. But in the meantime, Brooks spends his days reading, praying, taking phone calls and tweeting from his tent on the roof. UrbanFaith went up to the motel roof to talk to Brooks about inner-city Christianity and youth violence when he was celebrating his birthday last Monday. The interview below has been edited for length and clarity.

via Pastor on the Roof | Urban Faith.

Related posts:

  1. Are you a missions pastor with an MBA or business background? I want to talk to you Just had a great LinkedIn exchange with a man who is a missions pastor of a church here in the...
  2. How We Transitioned A Homogenous Church Wayne Schmidt writes in Unity in Christ Magazine: I had the privilege of helping to found Kentwood Community Church (KCC)...
  3. A pastor with HIV tells his story IN THE MAIL: A Positive Life: Living with HIV as a Pastor, Husband, and Father by Shane Stanford...