Out of Place: Christian community in 1 Peter and James
Heather L. Hart Out of Place: Christian community in 1 Peter and James The green outline of his face was a caricature, the name inaccurate. Yet, we didn’t think twice about our school mascot, we were the “Indians.” We cheered his image at games and emblazoned his likeness on yearbooks. It was years later before I heard an Indigenous American Christian speak about her heartbreak at this type of appropriation of tribal culture. I was left reconsidering my perspective and my assumptions. How does our Christian community live as God’s people when we are often either blind to appropriation...