A Letter of Hope to the Concordia Seminary Community

Authors

John Nunes, Concordia College-New YorkFollow

Document Type

Editorial

Keywords

institutional racism, lcms, theological, lutheran

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

Shortly after the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., these remarkably blunt words from Lutheran pastor and civil rights leader, William H. Griffin, were released by Concordia Publishing House: “Unless the church faces up to the racism in its own midst, the witness of the church against the racism outside the church will go unheedeed."

Disciplines

Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

People in this Resource (separated by commas)

Griffin, Bonhoeffer , Martin Luther King, Jr, Gudina Tumsa, Arthur Carl Piepkorn,

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Nunes, John (2018) "A Letter of Hope to the Concordia Seminary Community," Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 2.
Available at: https://scholar.csl.edu/grapho/vol1/iss1/2