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truth for the Colson Center on John Stone Street.

Last month, according to the Congolese military, a militant group attacked a Pentecostal

church, killing at least 10 and winning scores of others.

Though a report like this is hardly new, these stories rarely make the news.

Many in the Western world simply don't realize just how prevalent Christianity is outside

of Europe and North America.

Plus, the creeping influence of what might be called the critical theory mood leaves

the impression that Christians are always the villains of history and can never be the

victims.

This caricature of Christianity is a sort of Western tribal faith of Westerners as flawed

at the core.

As Philip Jenkins argued in his book, The Next Christian Dumb, it took nearly a millennium

and a half before the majority of Christians were Europeans.

Even today, that's no longer the case.

If we were true to the actual demographic realities, the stereotypical Christian would

not be a white male, but an African woman.

In fact, from its very inception, Christianity has always been a multi-ethnic, multilingual

and multi-continental faith.

In part, to oppose these false stereotypes of the Christian faith, Apologist Abdu Murray

has written a very helpful book more than a white man's religion, while the Gospel

has never been merely white male-centered or just another religion.

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