Articles for tag: Native Americans

Sangre de Cristo

(We first ran this Communion meditation in January 2014.) By Ronald G. Davis In the 16th century, Francisco Coronado and a group of Spanish soldiers explored the American Southwest, looking for golden cities! A priest accompanied them to carry God’s blessing and protection. When they reached the source of the Rio Grande River in what is now central Colorado, as the traditional story is told, that priest was mortally wounded by Native Americans defending their independence. As he lay dying in the Spaniards’ escape southward, he saw a glorious sunset on newly snowcapped peaks. “Sangre de Cristo! Sangre de Cristo!”

Breaking the Chain of Intergenerational Suffering

By T.R. Robertson The book of Genesis tells the story of generation after generation of inherited suffering. Adam and Eve”s sin affected the lives of their children and the generations to follow. Abraham”s poor choices were echoed by the poor choices of his son, Isaac, and trickled on down to the conflicts between Jacob and Esau, and then on to Joseph”s brothers selling him into slavery. If, like me, you were nurtured in the Restoration Movement, it”s likely we share an aversion to anything smelling of original sin mixed with inherited guilt. An unfortunate side effect of this theological bent

FROM MY BOOKSHELF: Not Your High School”s History

By LeRoy Lawson The problem with history is that it doesn”t sit still. The older I grow the more it changes. Many of my public school history lessons have flunked the tests of time. If you want to retain confidence in your high school grasp of the past, this one thing you must do: Stop reading. Or at least stop reading history. The Rest of the Story Here is the first book to put on your list of books not to read: James W. Loewen”s Lies My Teacher Told Me (Touchstone, 1996). As you can tell from the date, I

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