DLGP

Doctor of Leadership in Global Perspectives: Crafting Ministry in an Interconnected World

Encountering The Truth

By: on March 20, 2025

I have been in two minor earthquakes that left me safe but scared. Both were strong enough to shake the house, rattle pictures off walls, and break dinnerware. Once they were over, while they did cause momentary anxiety, life continued as normal. Neither was even close to being as life-altering as the big earthquakes that…

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Let’s learn from Postmodernism how to root what follows

By: on March 20, 2025

In reading, Stephen Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism: Scepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, one gets a clear sense of the amount of time it takes to root ideas into the very fabric of a society. What started in the 1950s and 1960s among French philosophers [1], became the University texts in the 1990s and early…

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Postmodernism, Truth, & the Church: A Biblical Response to Stephen Hicks

By: on March 20, 2025

Stephen Hicks’ book, Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault [1] takes the reader on a deep dive into the origins of postmodernism, tracking its philosophical development and highlighting its connections to Marxist ideology. As someone who values Judeo-Christian principles and upholds the Bible as the Word of God, I find his analysis…

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Postmodernism has been Deconstructed. What is Next?

By: on March 19, 2025

The village I lived in along the southern coast of Kenya had a socialist nature to it. Within that village, commodities were communal and meant to be shared. If I bought a ladder, it naturally was for the collective use of the entire village and can be returned to me upon request. There was a…

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Lucy, You Have some Splaining To Do!

By: on March 19, 2025

For nearly a decade in the fifties, American television showcased the comedy sitcom I Love Lucy, which remains an icon and one of the most beloved shows ever. In the starring role, Lucille Ball plays Lucy Ricardo, a silly and lovable housewife who gets herself into ridiculous and humorous situations. The line, “Lucy, you have…

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Philosophy is NOT my forte!

By: on March 17, 2025

I have had two formal philosophy courses in my life.  The first one, Critical and Creative Thinking, focused on logic.  The second, Introduction to Philosophy was taught by a former Nazi soldier with a thick German accent that was difficult to understand. Based on these two courses, I failed to develop a love of philosophy. …

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Anti-Racism is not unifying. Will Colourblindness Help?

By: on March 14, 2025

In The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, Coleman Hughes calls for an end to racial identity as a primary marker for people, because it has not produced a more flourishing and equal society. His argument is “that colorblindness is the wisest principle by which to govern our fragile experiment in multiethnic…

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Re-centering My Inner Pendulum

By: on March 14, 2025

An acquaintance recently shared that she left a mutual group because it was too white. Her perspective was that it was a “sea of white faces.” I experienced the same group as wonderfully diverse. I thought the group looked less like me than the typical Oregon demographic. At over 30% non-white, it was easily twice…

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Oh To Be Colorblind

By: on March 14, 2025

Race has been a factor in my life since my childhood. I remember interacting in multiple cross-racial settings and feeling like everything was peachy. I believed race was just a differentiation of skin color, but as time progressed, I found it to be the source of controversy and conflict. Growing up as a child in…

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Through the lens of a minority.

By: on March 14, 2025

Introduction What is ‘race’ to me personally? Well, I am a Micronesian from the Pacific Islands which has a certain geographical location on this planet. Race to me refers a group of people with a certain likeness, way of living, same or at least similar language and history or backgrounds. This is not based on…

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Character over Color

By: on March 13, 2025

What I believe about race and why. When I was in elementary school the first time I saw children whose skin was much darker than mine I questioned my mother about it. She responded by telling me that skin color was God’s gift to help people whose generations of ancestors spent thousands of years living…

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Tearin’ Down the Walls

By: on March 13, 2025

“I have a dream that one day my children will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The topic of race has always been something that I’ve been aware of for as long as I can remember. Even though I have…

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Colorblindness or Reconciliation?

By: on March 13, 2025

What I Believe About Racism and Why Residing in a small town in north-central Alberta, a bedroom community of Edmonton, I am part of a population of approximately 22,000 people, among whom 820 are identified as visible minorities. Despite my upbringing in South Africa, where I was classified as a “coloured” person, I am not…

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What color do you see?

By: on March 13, 2025

Before reading The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, I understood “race” as categorizing specific features held by a group of people. These features can be physical signs such as skin color, body shape, or specific cultural behaviors. Growing up, I was taught that races came about at the Tower of Babel…

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Don’t be Blind to the Beauty of Color

By: on March 12, 2025

I grew up in a middle-class white home with the understanding that we are all to be colorblind. I understood that we shouldn’t see race, color, or ethnicity but that we should treat all people the same. Since my childhood, I have adopted three black, African children. They are African, not African American, or Black…

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I Don’t Really Know [Saya Tidak Benar-Benar Tahu]

By: on March 11, 2025

Previous knowledge In Malaysia, the concept of reverse racism is often discussed in the context of the country’s affirmative action policies, particularly the New Economic Policy (NEP) introduced in 1971. The NEP aimed to address economic disparities among ethnic groups by providing affirmative action for the majority Malay population, who were historically economically disadvantaged compared…

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I Have Lived Long Enough to Know that People are People

By: on March 11, 2025

I am a diamond. At least, that is what my high school history teacher, Mrs. Clara Luper, called me and all her students. We were HER diamonds, and our gender, race, or ethnicity was of no importance. I am Mrs. Luper’s diamond, and just like a natural gemstone, I was formed under intense pressure for…

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Made in the Image of God – The Same, Yet Different

By: on March 10, 2025

Previous Knowledge Race is a topic that I am passionate about, but the reality is that race along with ethnicity are terms that I do not like.  Today most people understand that race is a concept developed to differentiate people based on skin color and other physical features.  For years due to concepts such as…

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