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    Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey
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    Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey
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    Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey

    By Sarah Shin

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    Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year
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    For a generation or so, society has tried to be colorblind. People say they don’t see race. But this approach has limitations. In our broken world, ethnicity and racial identity are often points of pain and injustice. We can’t ignore that God created us with our ethnic identities. We bring all of who we are, including our ethnicity and cultural background, to our identity and work as God's ambassadors.

    Ethnicity and evangelism specialist Sarah Shin reveals how our brokenness around ethnicity can be restored and redeemed, for our own wholeness and also for the good of others. When we experience internal transformation in our ethnic journeys, God propels us outward in a reconciling witness to the world. Ethnic healing can demonstrate God's power and goodness and bring good news to others. Showing us how to make space for God's healing of our ethnic stories, Shin helps us grow in our crosscultural skills, manage crosscultural conflict, pursue reconciliation and justice, and share the gospel as ethnicity-aware Christians.

    Jesus offers hope for healing, both for ourselves and for society. Discover how your ethnic story can be transformed for compelling witness and mission.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateNov 14, 2017
    ISBN9780830888979
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    Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey
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    Sarah Shin

    Sarah Shin is associate national director of evangelism for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF). She is a speaker and trainer in ethnicity, evangelism, and the arts, and she previously served IVCF as an area director in Boston and as a regional coordinator of multiethnicity. A fine artist and painter, Sarah has a master’s degree in theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a master’s in city planning and development from MIT. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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    • 4/5
      A deep and wide exploration into ethnicity and ethnic identity in terms of Christianity and the Gospel.From the beginning the author seeks for all to, as the book's title would indicate, get beyond colorblindness. She makes the case that ethnicity need not be a negative or a problem: God established nations, each in their place, and they have a role to play in His economy. Yes, ethnic identity has become unfortunately reduced to tribalism at times, has been broken in many ways, can cause distress, and become divisive, but the author does well at showing that all people--even white people--have some kind of ethnic background and can find redemption for themselves and that ethnic identity in Christ.The author speaks of all sorts of ethnic identities; she herself is of Korean descent, and has worked among white people, Latinx, Native Americans, black people, and those from other ethnic groups as well. She does not single out white people for constant beratement; instead, unlike many other works on race and ethnicity, she encourages white people to recognize their own ethnic identity and learn to find redemption for it in Christ.When people are able to recognize who they are and find redemption for themselves in their ethnicity in Christ, they are then able to help others of their own ethnicity and of other ethnicities more effectively find that redemption for themselves and their ethnicity as well. They can learn how to navigate the challenges that come whenever different ethnicities and cultures come together, learn to trust others, and work together in a way that can glorify God in Christ.The work is full of questions for reflection and other resources to explore. This is a very important work for people to consider at this time in ministry.**--galley received as part of early review program