Author Archives: destinokristy
Becoming A Believer Didn’t Take Away My Ethnicity
The following is a part of our series on Ethnic Identity. I remember several years ago taking a personality test that asked a series of questions connected to worldview in relation to God and humanity. Essentially, each question related to how ...
Why It Is Important To Grieve on Good Friday
"One of the most traditional and popular devotions in the Christian world is the Stations of the Cross...every generation of Christians, driven by some instinct of faith, has tried to retrace the steps of Jesus to Calvary, discovering that he ...
What Are Your Eyes Reflecting Back?
"When a suppressed people looks into the eyes of the majority culture, they see reflected back either their own worth or inferiority." As a student, I never gave my ethnicity much significance. I came to faith through a white evangelical church ...
This Is Where I Live
If you have been a part of my organization for a while, you've probably seen a video called "This Is Where I Live". It's a recruiting video encouraging students to step out in faith and live in a new place ...
Values That Shaped Destino Winter Conference
" The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set ...
The Festive Prophetic – A “Both/And” Spirituality
I've been thinking lately about the phrase "festive prophesy" that I ran across in some writings by Fr. Virgilio Elizondo several months ago. He talked about how the Mexican-American identity embraced not just sorrow but also joy, and held the ...
Who Gets To Tell The Story?
I've been thinking and hearing a lot about story. Our organization's conference this summer highlighted story, I hear talks on how important it is, and I read blog posts about how to use storytelling to develop organizational identity. Just yesterday ...
Six Postures of Ethnic Minority Culture: Equal and Empowered Partnership
This is the last of five posts in a series on the newly released article, "Six Postures of Ethnic Minority Culture Towards Majority Culture". After reading the sixth posture please join the discussion in the comments. Posture #6: Equal and Empowered ...
Six Postures of Ethnic Minority Culture: Duty, Pleasing, and Unity and Assimilation
This is the fourth of five posts in a series on the newly released article, "Six Postures of Ethnic Minority Culture Towards Majority Culture". After reading the fourth and fifth postures please join the discussion in the comments. Posture #4: Duty ...
Six Postures of Ethnic Minority Culture: Silent and Resigned
This is the third of five posts in a series on the newly released article, "Six Postures of Ethnic Minority Culture Towards Majority Culture". After reading this third posture please join the discussion in the comments. Posture #3: Silent and Resigned The ...
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