{"id":512,"date":"2006-08-25T18:05:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T18:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2006\/08\/facing-race-p2.html"},"modified":"2006-08-25T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T18:05:20","slug":"facing-race-p2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/08\/facing-race-p2.html","title":{"rendered":"Facing Race (p2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Race is inherent to the American experience.&nbsp; The next season of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060824\/tv_nm\/leisure_survivor_dc_1\">Survivor<\/a> is going to divide the teams up according to race.&nbsp; Most people attend churches and live in neihborhoods that resemble their ace.&nbsp; The price of a private adoption is based upon skin tone.&nbsp; There is a pastor in Seattle who has drawn attention to this by putting up billboards stating the price of buying (I mean adopting) a white baby versus a darker hued child.&nbsp; See this link on <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/story?id=91834&amp;page=1\">Why it Cost More to Adopt a White baby<\/a>.&nbsp; How do you explain Jon Bonet Ramsey making headlines without factoring in race?<\/p>\n<p>Race, race everywhere and not a definition.&nbsp; If we can get to the core of race then we will have discovered the birthplace of jazz and the beginnings of a jazz theology.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race is inherent to the American experience.&nbsp; The next season of Survivor is going to divide the teams up according to race.&nbsp; Most people attend churches and live in neihborhoods that resemble their ace.&nbsp; The price of a private adoption is based upon skin tone.&nbsp; There is a pastor in Seattle who has drawn attention&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Facing Race (p2) - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/08\/facing-race-p2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Facing Race (p2) - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Race is inherent to the American experience.&nbsp; 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Author of Finding the Groove: Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith (Zondervan) and the upcoming, Strange Fruit: The Cross as a Way of Life (2011). Founder of Project 127, a ministry dedicated to seeing the day when there are no children waiting for homes in Colorado's foster care system. Robert deeply desires to see the body of Christ mobilized to serve the least of these. The poor, the down and out, the disenfranchised and disabled, those deemed unimportant and the unborn. He believes that God loves all people yet he has a special heart for the poor and the poor in spirit, the miserable and the marginalized. A Contributing Editor for Leadership Journal and Urbanfaith.com. He acquired a B.A. in Bibilcal Studies from Colorado Christian University and a Master of Arts in World Christianity (Missiology) from Denver Seminary. Robert is married to the love of his life, Barbara, and they have six energetic children (3 boys &amp; 3 girls--one bio, five adopted--two from Ethiopia). 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