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...Italian citizen writing to congratulate you for "The Color of Faith," about Willow Creek Community Church [Jan. 11]. Another example of a vital multicultural church is Baltimore's St. Matthew, where people from a multitude of races and 42 different countries worship together and share life and faith. Jesus didn't distinguish people by gender, economic means, race or place of origin. By doing our best to imitate him, we bear witness...
...told Willow Creek pastor Bill Hybels in 1999 that he was going to use him "to create new attitudes on race," he was about a half-century late. Today almost any public gathering the size of Willow Creek's congregation would be more than 2% African American. A decade into the 21st century, and Hybels is considering allowing a black pastor to preach or teach! The United Methodist Church has had black bishops and pastors for predominately white congregations for about 40 years. I wish Hybels success, but in this case, he is not parting the waters of social change...
...financial experts and smarter-than-average former elected officials. In keeping with the P-heavy historical precedents, it could be known as the Phil Commission, after chairman Phil Angelides--a former California state treasurer who lost to Arnold Schwarzenegger in the state's 2006 governor's race. On the commission's first day of hearings, Angelides set a tone of civil but pointed inquisition that bodes well for its future. "It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes and then buying an insurance policy on the buyer," he said at one point while grilling Goldman Sachs...
Riots in the southern region of Calabria exposed deep conflicts over race and immigration in Italy. A Jan. 7 attack on African residents sparked clashes in the town of Rosarno that left more than 50 people hurt, including migrant workers, native Italians and police. Opposition leader Pier Luigi Bersani blamed the melee on "Mafia, exploitation, xenophobia and racism," while Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said Italians had been too tolerant of illegal immigration. Hundreds of immigrants were evacuated and more than 10 suspected mafiosi arrested...
...shoehorned into broader categories for the purpose of following certain laws based on official statistics. But in the longer term, the write-in box could prove to be an even more momentous step in the evolution of racial categorization than the ability to check more than one race. By encouraging wider swaths of people to explain as precisely as possible how they see themselves, the Census is implicitly acknowledging that its count of the U.S. population is increasingly becoming a conduit for self-expression. "We are measuring the characteristics of the American people as they wish to be known," says...