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Caleb Fetterhoff commented on the post, Creative Complaint 1 year, 5 months ago
Thank you, Andrew. In Habakkuk’s little book, you’ve shown me the comfort of faith in the midst of doubt. I love your encouragement about the truth of the “even so” traveling with the prophet into the times of the “even though”.
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Caleb Fetterhoff commented on the post, Harry, Did You Know? 1 year, 6 months ago
I love it, Drew & Friends! Thanks for sharing. It reawakens the desire within me to reread the series again. The musical and vocal productions were beautiful and top notch. And that last stanza’s lyrics are stellar! Thank you!
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Caleb Fetterhoff commented on the post, Things Fall Apart 1 year, 7 months ago
Thank you, Ms. Sorensen! By the power of God’s love, may we submit to his work of changing us, and may we testify to that change in the presence of others who may be fearful like us.
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Caleb Fetterhoff started the topic Perkins said BLM is race baiting in the forum Week Four: Chapters 19 – Postscript 1 year, 10 months ago
One of the videos Mr. Guthrie posted under the “watch” section of this curriculum features Mr. Perkins speaking during a service at Mosaic Church in Arkansas. Based on allusions he makes during his sermon, it seems the sermon is from 2016 or 2017. It is a stirring message, but near the end he says that the slogan “Black lives matter” is race b…[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff replied to the topic Discussion Question: Information in the forum Week Four: Chapters 19 – Postscript 1 year, 10 months ago
Hey, Debbie, I definitely see what you’re saying. I honestly don’t know what to expect from my church and its leadership when I bring this up. Conversations after services or during prayer request times seem to focus exclusively on “unrest, rioting, looting, rebellion”, etc. which discourages me and has, to this point, kept me silent on what I w…[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff replied to the topic Discussion Question: How racism affects white people in the forum Week Four: Chapters 19 – Postscript 1 year, 10 months ago
I just re-read your question, Mr. Guthrie, and my response, and realized I basically missed the main intent of your prompt. So here’s a more thorough response:
I think we get a clue of what racism does to white people when Mr. Perkins writes about his own gut reaction of wanting to hate the white men beating him, in the midst of the beatings,…[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff replied to the topic Discussion Question: How racism affects white people in the forum Week Four: Chapters 19 – Postscript 1 year, 10 months ago
In the book, I remember two ways in which white believers can get involved in a loving, helpful way with African American communities in need:
1. “Coops among the have-nots, though organized on the self-help principle, often need specific outside assistance. To recognize this … will open eyes to the larger goal of making entire communities…[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff replied to the topic Discussion Question: Information in the forum Week Four: Chapters 19 – Postscript 1 year, 10 months ago
I want to explore with my almost entirely white church how we can reach out to our neighboring almost entirely African American evangelical churches to initiate some structured interactions (services, Bible study groups, etc.) with the purpose of learning from them, their experiences, their ways of interpreting the Bible, their liturgies, etc. …[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff replied to the topic Discussion Question: New Awareness in the forum Week Four: Chapters 19 – Postscript 1 year, 10 months ago
It’s refreshing to realize that there are Christian leaders like John Perkins who strongly teach Christ’s gospel and also work for its application in issues of racial justice. I was very uneducated (and still am) in the Christian roots of the civil rights movement, and so was not certain of even one evangelical committed to proclaiming gospel…[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff replied to the topic Discussion Question: Christianity and racism in the forum Week Three: Chapters 15 – 18 1 year, 10 months ago
Thank you, Ms. Hunsberger, for bringing James K.A. Smith and his work into this discussion. I have read his Cultural Liturgies series (of which the book you quoted from is the first), but I hadn’t thought about it in relation to this question or issue. But you’re absolutely right. If the Gospel doesn’t change our hearts (our loves), then ou…[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff replied to the topic Discussion Question: Admitting wrongs in the forum Week Three: Chapters 15 – 18 1 year, 10 months ago
I think one way to admit and confess the wrongs we have done against African Americans is to allow for the removal of those monuments which honor the white leaders who led our ancestors in racist actions and institutions. Indeed, it would be best if we ourselves (referring to their white descendants) would arrange for their removal and properly…[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff replied to the topic Discussion Question: Systemic racism in the forum Week One: Chapters 1 – 8 1 year, 10 months ago
Mark and Debbie got most of the ones I saw in these chapters, but another big one was the racism embedded into the institutions of education. Publicly funded buses for white children; black children had to walk. School for black children was scheduled around the white farmers’ planting and harvesting seasons; (I assume) white children studied t…[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff replied to the topic Discussion Question: Southern prejudice in the forum Week One: Chapters 1 – 8 1 year, 10 months ago
I am going slightly off topic here because I grew up in the North, in Pennsylvania, where we like to pride ourselves in our long history of supposed pluralism and multiculturalism. Most of the racism I have observed here (even in my own heart) has not been paternalistic or antagonistic, but fearful. It’s almost always covered up with oblique r…[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff replied to the topic Discussion Question: Social/political and personal/existential dimensions of faith in the forum Week One: Chapters 1 – 8 1 year, 10 months ago
I love your metaphor here, and its cross-centeredness, Suzanne! I am to the point of believing that, yes, a cross-rooted faith should influence the culture for justice and righteousness, even in “halls of government.” But I stumble over the fact that Jesus does not seem to have left us an example of this (at least not in the New Testament). So…[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff replied to the topic Discussion Question: Social/political and personal/existential dimensions of faith in the forum Week One: Chapters 1 – 8 1 year, 10 months ago
In a conversation I recently had in my white evangelical circle, in which we have been taught to maintain the believer’s personal relationship with God as paramount, one objection I heard to getting involved in any messages of a social gospel is precisely this tension between private transformation and social transformation found in these first…[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff replied to the topic Discussion Question: Social/political and personal/existential dimensions of faith in the forum Week One: Chapters 1 – 8 1 year, 10 months ago
<p class=”MsoNormal”>In a conversation I recently had in my white evangelical circle, in which we have been taught to maintain that the believer’s personal relationship with Christ is paramount, one objection I have heard to our getting involved in any messages of a social gospel is precisely this tension between private transformation and social…[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff replied to the topic Discussion Question: Social/political and personal/existential dimensions of faith in the forum Week One: Chapters 1 – 8 1 year, 10 months ago
I think Mr. Perkins has set up an interesting pair of problems: the glaring need for society to be just, right and fair on the one hand, and the subtly gnawing need on the other hand for beautiful personal transformation from the inside out. As you point out, Mr. Guthrie, these two issues are what Christians today are grappling with: how does…[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff replied to the topic Introductions in the forum John Perkins' <em>Let Justice Roll Down</em> 1 year, 11 months ago
Hello everybody. My name is Caleb, and I look forward to reading and learning with you all. I am a missionary working in Lesotho, southern Africa, but am currently home on furlough in Pennsylvania for the time being. As an amateur musician, I have been influenced by the Rabbit Room for at least ten years now. Thanks, Mr. Guthrie, for mak…[Read more]
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Caleb Fetterhoff commented on the post, Convene the Hutchmoot: 2019 2 years, 8 months ago
What was the Sunday surprise?
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