Racial Reconciliation in the Church
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Kingdom Encounters Podcast: Pastor Paul Hoffman
On this Kingdom Encounters podcast, Alexei Laushkin, founder of Kingdom Mission Society interview Pastor Paul Hoffman of Evangelical Friends Church in Newport, Rhode Island about his latest book Reconciling Places: How to Bridge the Chasms in our Communities During the interview we talk about: Who are the Evangelical Friends in relation to other Christian communities. How…
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KMS Attends St. Sophia’s and ACT Now Rally for MLK 50th
On April 3rd and 4th 2018 KMS brought together a diverse set of pastors and lay leaders to commemorate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on this the 50th year of his assassination. Saturday evening April 3rd a group of us attended St. Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Washington DC to hear…
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MLK Bridges Conversation: Ending the Silence on Racism
Rev. Brenda Girton-Mitchell Executive Director of Grace and Race Ministries Inc. and Alexei Laushkin Executive Director of Kingdom Mission Society host a Facebook Live Discussion describing the MLK Bridges Initiative. Starting at minute 35:00 we begin to discuss some of the questions that can come up on racial understanding and action. Learn more at www.mlkbridges.com.…
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Introducing MLK Bridges
Grace and Race Ministries, Inc. and Kingdom Mission Society will commemorate the 50thAnniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by engaging 50 houses of worship, faith-based and other civic organizations to work together as bridge builders for racial understanding and action. “What can I do?” is a frequently asked question when it comes to issues…
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Churches Need to Speak Clearly Against White Nationalism
Alexei Laushkin, Executive Director, Kingdom Mission Society Hate has no place in America. The modern day klan seeks to organize itself by riding a wave of shock-based politics, a kind of politics which has become ever more prominent. Now that they have had their deadly moment in Charlottesville, the modern klan will seek to recruit…
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Praying for a Church Divided by Race
by Alexei Laushkin It’s hard to look at the events of the last week or weeks or months or years really without recognizing there is a deep context and history from which America’s racial divides spring. The divides in society are easy to understand, the ones in the church much harder. I want to draw…
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A Different Take on Ecumenism and Racial Unity
by Alexei Laushkin It is a hard task to cultivate ears and eyes and especially hearts that are open to different expressions of Christianity. Most of the cultural momentum in the Christian church worldwide flows in the opposite direction. Why are we Calvinist, why are we Roman Catholic, what makes us Greek Orthodox, these questions…
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Thanksgiving in the Midst of Suffering
November 3 2015 by Alexei Laushkin So, what about Thanksgiving in the midst of suffering? That’s something I’m reflecting on and how Christian worship guides us into a type of lament that leads to joy and healing/wholeness. I am spending sometime thinking about and listening to the interviews of Mahalia Jackson. Her last tour in…