The PCA (Presbyterian Church in America) has begun to publish a new magazine titled By Faith. It is a well done publication. You would be well served in subscribing to it. In the most recent issue, there is an article on the PCA's on going struggle for racial harmony and diversity. Interestingly, in the article I am cited as a "PCA leader." While this is not true, my friend believes that statement may be proleptic. Read the article for yourself: Content With One Voice in the Choir: The PCA's Challenge for Racial Diversity.
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Here's a picture for you, Lou: the adopted Chinese daughter of a Midwestern Dutch guy and his South Carolinian wife being baptized by an African American PCA pastor. That interracial enough for ya? ;-)
Whites make up exatly 50 percent of the population of that photo, ergo they are not in the majority. Yes, there are more of them than of either of the other races represented, but a) they just didn't oblige us by adopting twins, and b) the parents, the baby and the pastor make up about the whole cast of characters you need for a baptism.
I suppose I could have used the shot that didn't include the mom, but the whole hinting at Midwestern/Southern marriage being an additional dimension of cross-culturalness was too amusing to omit. ;-)
And I "had to go and use" (what an odd choice of words) Pastor Wy because he was my pastor, and because the couple with the baby are my friends, and because I just came across the picture on the photographer's website the day before yesterday, and because it made me happy and I wanted to share it. Why do you ask?
Well, majority literally means more than half, so you'd have to have more than 50 percent to have a majority, and my mathematical reasoning is therefore impeccable. ;-)
I questioned "go and use" because the idea of "using" a person can have a bad connotation, but I see I was reading too much into your words. That's the great weakness of this medium -- you can't get all those nonverbal cues that give you the full sense of what a person's saying!
I'm afraid I won't be able to pass along your greeting, though. The Plummers are in the process of moving to Birmingham, and I don't expect to see them before they go.
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