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Andrea Smith, director of graduate studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Riverside, and Oscar García-Johnson, associate dean for the Center for the Study of Hispanic Church and Community at Fuller Seminary, answer questions from the audience after a lecture on how the history of missions to Indigenous peoples in the United States has been simultaneously the history of Indigenous genocide.

The Fuller Missiology Lectures is an annual conference held by the School of Intercultural Studies. Its 2017 theme, “Race, Theology, and Mission,” considered the issue of race through a multicultural lens. Discussions aimed to develop historical, theological, interdisciplinary, and missiological approaches to race that can interrogate conventional thinking about ethnoracialism, colorism, and hierarchicalism (in its various manifestations across gender, economic, and class lines), even while revitalizing Christian witness and practices of racial justice, reconciliation, and peace in the present time.

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Oscar García-Johnson, associate dean for the Center for the Study of Hispanic Church and Community at Fuller Seminary, responds to Andrea Smith’s lecture and discusses whether American Christianity can adequately advance a Native theology with the history of genocide and oppression of Indigenous peoples.

The Fuller Missiology Lectures is an annual conference held by the School of Intercultural Studies. Its 2017 theme, “Race, Theology, and Mission,” considered the issue of race through a multicultural lens. Discussions aimed to develop historical, theological, interdisciplinary, and missiological approaches to race that can interrogate conventional thinking about ethnoracialism, colorism, and hierarchicalism (in its various manifestations across gender, economic, and class lines), even while revitalizing Christian witness and practices of racial justice, reconciliation, and peace in the present time.

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Andrea Smith, director of graduate studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Riverside, examines how the history of missions to Indigenous peoples in the United States has been simultaneously the history of Indigenous genocide. She also discusses how this theological abandonment of Native peoples fundamentally structures US law today as well as the contemporary treatment of Native peoples.

The Fuller Missiology Lectures is an annual conference held by the School of Intercultural Studies. Its 2017 theme, “Race, Theology, and Mission,” considered the issue of race through a multicultural lens. Discussions aimed to develop historical, theological, interdisciplinary, and missiological approaches to race that can interrogate conventional thinking about ethnoracialism, colorism, and hierarchicalism (in its various manifestations across gender, economic, and class lines), even while revitalizing Christian witness and practices of racial justice, reconciliation, and peace in the present time.

Explore more on the complex intersection of race, politics, and society: https://fullerstudio.fuller.edu/responding-faithfully-to-race-and-politics/

For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio

Jonathan Tran, associate professor of theology and ethics at Baylor University, and Daniel D. Lee, director of the Center for Asian American Theology and Ministry at Fuller Seminary, answer questions from the audience after a lecture on how harmful black-white binary views of race plague mission efforts within the Asian American experience.

The Fuller Missiology Lectures is an annual conference held by the School of Intercultural Studies. Its 2017 theme, “Race, Theology, and Mission,” considered the issue of race through a multicultural lens. Discussions aimed to develop historical, theological, interdisciplinary, and missiological approaches to race that can interrogate conventional thinking about ethnoracialism, colorism, and hierarchicalism (in its various manifestations across gender, economic, and class lines), even while revitalizing Christian witness and practices of racial justice, reconciliation, and peace in the present time.

Explore more on the complex intersection of race, politics, and society: https://fullerstudio.fuller.edu/responding-faithfully-to-race-and-politics/

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Daniel D. Lee, director of the Center for Asian American Theology and Ministry at Fuller Seminary, responds to Jonathan Tran’s lecture and discusses how the diverse Asian American experience is often neglected and forgotten when viewing racism as a black-white binary.

The Fuller Missiology Lectures is an annual conference held by the School of Intercultural Studies. Its 2017 theme, “Race, Theology, and Mission,” considered the issue of race through a multicultural lens. Discussions aimed to develop historical, theological, interdisciplinary, and missiological approaches to race that can interrogate conventional thinking about ethnoracialism, colorism, and hierarchicalism (in its various manifestations across gender, economic, and class lines), even while revitalizing Christian witness and practices of racial justice, reconciliation, and peace in the present time.

Explore more on the complex intersection of race, politics, and society: https://fullerstudio.fuller.edu/responding-faithfully-to-race-and-politics/

For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio

Jonathan Tran, associate professor of theology and ethics at Baylor University, discusses how harmful black-white binary views of race plague mission efforts within the Asian American experience.

The Fuller Missiology Lectures is an annual conference held by the School of Intercultural Studies. Its 2017 theme, “Race, Theology, and Mission,” considered the issue of race through a multicultural lens. Discussions aimed to develop historical, theological, interdisciplinary, and missiological approaches to race that can interrogate conventional thinking about ethnoracialism, colorism, and hierarchicalism (in its various manifestations across gender, economic, and class lines), even while revitalizing Christian witness and practices of racial justice, reconciliation, and peace in the present time.

Explore more on the complex intersection of race, politics, and society: https://fullerstudio.fuller.edu/responding-faithfully-to-race-and-politics/

For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio

Lisseth Rojas-Flores, associate professor of marital and family therapy, responds to Elizabeth Conde-Frazier’s lecture and discusses how dominant cultures imbue privilege within its participants and exert racism through existing systems.

The Fuller Missiology Lectures is an annual conference held by the School of Intercultural Studies. Its 2017 theme, “Race, Theology, and Mission,” considered the issue of race through a multicultural lens. Discussions aimed to develop historical, theological, interdisciplinary, and missiological approaches to race that can interrogate conventional thinking about ethnoracialism, colorism, and hierarchicalism (in its various manifestations across gender, economic, and class lines), even while revitalizing Christian witness and practices of racial justice, reconciliation, and peace in the present time.

Explore more on the complex intersection of race, politics, and society: https://fullerstudio.fuller.edu/responding-faithfully-to-race-and-politics/

For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio

Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, academic dean and vice president of education at Esperanza College of Eastern University, discusses the professionalism of the church and theological education as expressions of racism and broken praxis, in particular through their roots in mission efforts in 19th-century Latin America.

The Fuller Missiology Lectures is an annual conference held by the School of Intercultural Studies. Its 2017 theme, “Race, Theology, and Mission,” considered the issue of race through a multicultural lens. Discussions aimed to develop historical, theological, interdisciplinary, and missiological approaches to race that can interrogate conventional thinking about ethnoracialism, colorism, and hierarchicalism (in its various manifestations across gender, economic, and class lines), even while revitalizing Christian witness and practices of racial justice, reconciliation, and peace in the present time.

Explore more on the complex intersection of race, politics, and society: https://fullerstudio.fuller.edu/responding-faithfully-to-race-and-politics/

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Willie Jennings, associate professor of systematic theology and Africana studies at Yale Divinity School, and Mark Labberton, president of Fuller Seminary, answer questions from the audience after a lecture on the dismantling of “whiteness” in the Christian faith.

The Fuller Missiology Lectures is an annual conference held by the School of Intercultural Studies. Its 2017 theme, “Race, Theology, and Mission,” considered the issue of race through a multicultural lens. Discussions aimed to develop historical, theological, interdisciplinary, and missiological approaches to race that can interrogate conventional thinking about ethnoracialism, colorism, and hierarchicalism (in its various manifestations across gender, economic, and class lines), even while revitalizing Christian witness and practices of racial justice, reconciliation, and peace in the present time.

Explore more on the complex intersection of race, politics, and society: https://fullerstudio.fuller.edu/responding-faithfully-to-race-and-politics/

For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio

Mark Labberton, president of Fuller Seminary, responds to Willie Jennings’s lecture and discusses ways in which the white church can cease its imperialization of “whiteness.”

The Fuller Missiology Lectures is an annual conference held by the School of Intercultural Studies. Its 2017 theme, “Race, Theology, and Mission,” considered the issue of race through a multicultural lens. Discussions aimed to develop historical, theological, interdisciplinary, and missiological approaches to race that can interrogate conventional thinking about ethnoracialism, colorism, and hierarchicalism (in its various manifestations across gender, economic, and class lines), even while revitalizing Christian witness and practices of racial justice, reconciliation, and peace in the present time.

Explore more on the complex intersection of race, politics, and society: https://fullerstudio.fuller.edu/responding-faithfully-to-race-and-politics/

For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio