“Racial and ethnic hostility is the foremost social problem facing our world today. From the systematic horror of “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia to the random violence savaging our inner cities, our world seems caught up in a tidal wave of racial and ethnic tension. This hostility threatens the very foundations of modern society.” – Billy Graham
- A Department of Justice study indicates that in 2005, homicide victimization rates for blacks were 6 times higher than the rates for whites.
- In a 2006 Opinion Research poll, almost half of black respondents — 49 percent — said racism is a "very serious" problem, while only 18 percent of whites shared that view.
- A 2006 U.S. Census Report indicated that 45% of the nation's children under the age of five are racial or ethnic minorities.
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Welcome to Salter McNeil & Associates
From: Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil
Welcome to the Salter McNeil & Associates (SMA) community! Salter McNeil & Associates partners with Christian leaders to transform organizations into reconciling communities. Our mission is to produce inter-culturally competent leaders and communities on college campuses, in churches and in organizations around the world. We do this through a biblically based process that includes speaking, training, leadership development, diversity assessments, strategic planning, consulting and executive coaching.
I personally welcome you and thank you for visiting us. I hope that you will visit often to find cutting edge information; helpful tools and inspiring stories that will empower you on your reconciliation journey.
Get Out of Jerusalem
What it takes for the gospel to reach the ends of the earth.
November 14, 2008
"As colleagues in campus ministry with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Rick Richardson and Brenda Salter McNeil gained some hard-won insights about multi-ethnic partnership, one of the most dramatic yet elusive signs of the Kingdom in our racialized culture. But what they gained most of all was a rich friendship. As soon as they sit down for an interview at Wheaton College, where Rick directs the M.A. program in evangelism and leadership, laughter spills out of the room and down the hallway, and they spend much of the next two hours completing each other's sentences."
"Indeed, the best way to describe what both Rick and Brenda bring wherever they go (in Brenda's case, all over North America as a speaker and consultant to churches) is good news. In their 2004 book The Heart of Racial Justice, and in Brenda's latest book A Credible Witness, they have applied their evangelists' attention to a tough topic—racial reconciliation—and discovered the gospel is at its heart."
"As part of the Christian Vision Project's big question for 2008, "Is our gospel too small?" Andy Crouch and Marshall Shelley sat down with Brenda and Rick to ask about the relationship of the gospel to issues of race and justice."
+ Read the full article at ChristianityTodayLibrary.com - Leadership Journal
Response to the election
My most profound experience came as I watched those who participated most fully and sacrificially in the Civil Rights Movement and a new generation who benefits from that movement begin to fully grasp that a Black family will be moving into the “White” house...
[read more]Reconciliation Stories...
Here is an excerpt from Jodie S. who tells how she was impacted by a message of reconciliation that she heard.
"... You gave an alter call (sort of) and spoke powerfully about reconciliation and the Samaritian woman in John 4. I became a Christian that night. I didnt stand up BUT prayed with you and every one else with all of my heart. Its been an adventurous couple of years. I have been working in the area of cross community reconciliation in Northern Ireland for many years and this summer had the privilege of taking three months off to work in the Anglican diocese of Gahini in the eastern province of Rwanda...."
