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BY ERIK TRYGGESTAD | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
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FOUNDING DIRECTOR URGES the faithful to
speak out against ‘situations that carry
the foul scent of racial injustice.’
PAUL WHITE
Jerry Taylor speaks at
ministers, ministry leaders and
church members during the sec-
ond European Vision Workshop.
About 125 Christians, repre-
senting 59 Churches of Christ in
19 nations, met for the four-day
event in the capital of Slovakia,
about 45 minutes east of Vienna,
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Austria. Such a gathering likely
would have been impossible 30
years ago, when Slovakia was part
of communist Czechoslovakia.
Much has changed in Europe in
those three decades. As the Soviet
Union fell, missionaries rapidly
planted Churches of Christ in
Slovakia, Romania, Albania, Ukraine
and Russia, to name a few. That
work has slowed in recent years.
Meanwhile, many European
nations report declining birth rates
— below die replenishment level
needed to avoid population decline
without migration — and plummet-
ing church attendance. Add to the
mix a massive wave of refugees
from the troubled, predominantly
Muslim nations in the Middle East
But amidst the continent’s con-
sternation, Christians here see
divine opportunity.
See EUROPE, Page 14
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia
’m worried about our
M ■ continent,” Robert Limb
I said of Europe. “The light
I might have departed. It
I might be too late.”
The British-born minister for the
Moulin-Vert Church of Christ in
Paris describes himself as “English
by chance, French by choice” and
“Christian by conviction.” He has
labored tirelessly for decades in a
Europe increasingly described as
“post-pretty-well-everything,” he
said. “Postmodern. Post-Christian.
Past the post”
“It’s almost as if we live in a civi-
lization which knows it’s dying,”
he said. “And at the same time,
there are reasons to hope. And
God has placed us here.”
Limb spoke to a room full of
ABILENE,Texas — In 1960, a professor
named Carl Spain delivered an explosive
Bible Lectureship sermon that reverber-
ated far beyond what was known then as
Abilene Christian College.
In stark terms, Spain called out the
racism of Abilene Christian and other
colleges associated with Churches of
Christ nationally that maintained whites-
only admissions policies.
“God forbid that Churches of Christ and
schools operated by Christians shall be the
last stronghold of refuge for socially sick
people who have
Nazi illusions
about the master
race,” said Spain,
who taught
Bible at Abilene
Christian as well
as serving as the
minister for the
Hillcrest Church
of Christ in this
West Texas city.
“Our moral
attitudes are so
mixed up that
the opening of a center we use the story
named after Carl Spain, of Philemon
and Onesimus
to justify refusing a Negro admission to
study Bible in our graduate school of
Bible,” the professor complained, later
asking, “Why are we afraid? ... Are we
moral cowards on this issue?”
Nearly six decades after Spain’s stinging
rebuke hastened the integration of what is
now Abilene Christian University, another
Bible professor — this one an African-
American named Jerry Taylor — stepped
to the same wooden podium.
See ABILENE, Page 8
PHOTOS BY ERIKTRYGGESTAD
Robert Limb and his wife, Evelyne,
sing along with worship leader
Keith Lancaster in Bratislava.
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Fear and hope in Europe
ON A'POST-PRETTY-WELL-EVERYTHING' continent, Christians gather in once-communist
Slovakia to discuss the challenges and opportunities in their diversifying countries.
Dominic dos Santos, director of the Trinidad School of Preaching in the Caribbean, leads Christians from Europe,
America, Asia and the Middle East in the song "Amen"during the European Vision Worskhop in Bratislava.
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