Race & Ethnicity – Page 2 – Groans to Glory

Being Mestizo is Complicated

By jacoblgonzales on December 20, 2017December 22, 2017

… it is important to know the term I use to identify myself. I identify as mestizo, which is a person with a mixed ancestry of white Europeans and an indigenous people group. My ancestry consists of 75% white European and 25% indigenous Mexican.

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White Evangelicals Can Change

By jacoblgonzales on December 13, 2017November 20, 2017

We were living in Columbia, Missouri when Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, Missouri. Following his death, I saw firsthand the outrage and mourning of the black community, but I also witnessed plenty of denial and apathy from white evangelicals. I am not stating that all white evangelicals responded poorly, but it was frequent enough to create a division in the Church.

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