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Race Relations Day/Racial and Intercultural Justice

Minute for Mission: Race Relations Day/Racial and Intercultural Justice

Posted December 5th, 2019

I’ve been spending a lot of time with Genesis 11:1–9 lately, or the story of Shinar and the so-called “Tower of Babel.” It’s a popular Sunday school lesson, an etiology we recount to children to explain why humanity is so varied in language and location. We don’t engage it as much when we get older. For that reason, how we read and are taught the story as children often stays with us well into adulthood.