Tolerance Through Breaking Bread Together

Someone has done a study on race relations on campus and they have discovered that students who eat with other ethnic minorities are more likely to report good race relations than those who do not.

Apparently it is not enough to have racial intermingling in the classroom or dormitories. The report suggests that one difference is that the dining room seating is voluntary.

This coming Sunday is World Communion Sunday and that is a reminder to us that this communion we are part of is meant to be a force that brings all races together around one table. Canada and Ottawa are home to an amazing diversity of peoples. Sometimes our churches reflect that reality.

One more interesting point in this study. The dominant white community felt they did a better job than did the ethnic minority groups. That tells me predominantly white churches still need to do some soul-searching.


Peter