tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post4711813244032123486..comments2024-03-28T03:25:49.943-04:00Comments on Common Denominator: The Invention of Black and WhiteKen Schenckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-2116798059823981412014-01-12T20:02:50.068-05:002014-01-12T20:02:50.068-05:00Interesting about "white" being a recent...Interesting about "white" being a recent development. Thanks.Martin LaBarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-33663506590111547332014-01-11T12:03:23.493-05:002014-01-11T12:03:23.493-05:00Thanks for the reference, Jeff. I also saw a book ...Thanks for the reference, Jeff. I also saw a book called "How the Jews Became White Folk," or something like that. I'm jealous of you getting to take John. John knows the "thick descriptions" of history. Most church history teachers in our circles really only know history on a surface level. They don't see the deep cultural paradigm shifts like John does.Ken Schenckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-71305527511448485462014-01-11T11:46:09.901-05:002014-01-11T11:46:09.901-05:00After just coming through John Drury's America...After just coming through John Drury's American Christianity elective, my eyes were opened to lots of things. I've long disapproved of "black" and "white" designations. If we're talking about (or filling out a form) ethnicity then "white" is not an ethnicity. I'm German American.<br /><br />But these days lots of our original cultural heritages have died. My grandpa was fluent in German as a third generation American! I thought he was crazy when he said his great-grandpa moved from NYC to become a farmer in Indiana because he was sick of being called "black"... but he was "white". Boy was I confused.<br /><br />Then John literally schools us this week. Hearing about (and reading from) this book in last few days opened my eyes even more.<br />"How the Irish Became White". http://www.amazon.com/Irish-Became-White-Routledge-Classics/dp/0415963095/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389458437&sr=1-1&keywords=how+the+irish+became+white<br /><br />Hopefully the invention of Black of White can get tossed in the near future, because I see more harm than good has come from it. Great post, Dr. Schenck.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208617399411930479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-43284813017178665262014-01-11T03:17:38.452-05:002014-01-11T03:17:38.452-05:00Children are herd beings. It seems we were not cr...Children are herd beings. It seems we were not created to be fulfilled existing in isolation from other people. We were created to be fulfilled as we do the work of God together (John 6:29), and function as a body (1 Cor. 12:12).<br />And a bride waits for her husband.<br />In the meantime, the horns and teeth that God has given us to protect and prosper our one body is the sword of the Spirit; the word of God (Eph. 6:17).Susan Moorehttp://thecommonlanguage.comnoreply@blogger.com