Revisiting America's Broken History
Here’s an unusual edition of my travel blog. Usually I blog as I travel. But at the beginning of June I went on a service trip with our church’s high school youth group. I had some intentions of blogging while I was there, but you might not be surprised to hear that it’s hard to find downtime when you are helping lead a group of 20 teenagers. We travelled by bus to Jackson, Mississippi, and we spent a week at the Spencer Perkins Center there. Dr. John Perkins was a civil rights activist, and he is a well-regarded thinker and writer about Christian community development, racial reconciliation, and in general hopeful living as a Christian in a fallen world. The center is named for his son, Spencer, who started a Christian community there devoted to racial reconciliation. Morning Bible study found us listening to Dr. Perkins or his grandson, Big John, learning among other things about how to love our neighbor with new insights into the Good Samaritan story. After Bible study, we wen