Dear Doug

I loved reading today’s blog on race and marriage. My children and I were just discussing this the other day as they were asking what ethnicity their children would be. We are a family that is built through biological children and internationally adopted children, so far from Korea. I was stating that it depended on the ethnicity of the person each child married. Our younger three children would have children that are at least 1/2 Korean but could be 1/2 caucasion/black/chinese, etc. or full Korean. Our older children will have children that are at least 1/2 caucasion but could be half Korean/black/hispanic, etc. They all looked at me as if this was so wonderful. Of course we discussed that the key is that their spouse is 100% in love with Christ. This was in complete contrast to the racist family I grew up in, so it was so wonderful to have this very natural discussion with them and mean it with my whole heart that race was not the factor. I hadn’t phrased it with the one race... human race concept, but that compliments it nicely. Thanks for the salt!! And that was the first thing I noticed on the book cover.... you could not tell the ethnicity of the man on the cover. J. D.

Dear Mrs. D:

Thank you for this precious note. I have included this image above which I thought would be an additional encouragement to you and your family. The image depicts a blue-eyed “white” skinned Remee, and her biological twin sister, brown-eyed, “brown” skinned, Kian. These twins, born in April 2005, are a living testimony to the potential for tremendous variation in skin color that God has built into the human genome, and the foolishness of those who would claim that we should be divided on the bases of melanin count.

Also, if you are interested in further reading and listening on this subject matter, Vision Forum carries a number of materials. Dr. John Morris and I conducted Back to Genesis conferences in the late 1990s and through much of the 2000s, in which I addressed the unbiblical basis of racial prejudice. You can hear my thoughts and his in our Back to Genesis album. For close to a decade we have also addressed the tragic implications of both sinful prejudice and the unbiblical and wrongful practices which result from such prejudice, like chattel slavery, anti-miscegenation laws, eugenics, welfarism, etc., at our Witherspoon School of Law and Public Policy and on our Faith and Freedom tours. Our Jamestown 400 event also included an important message I gave presenting the historical case that America’s first legacy included the “one blood” anti-racist perspective that individuals united in Christ could marry regardless of melanin count, as evidenced by the letters of John Rolfe and the official act of the governor of Jamestown. You can also get a good introductory overview to the issue in the book One Blood, published by Masters Books, which we have carried for more than a half a decade.

Finally, let me recommend that you purchase Dr. Baucham’s excellent book, What He Must Be. The book is published by Crossway and you can purchase it from Vision Forum, Amazon.com, or through Dr. Baucham’s website. With graciousness, but clarity, Dr. Baucham articulates in his book and on his blog, the biblical position on race, marriage, and related subjects. He exposes the fraud and hypocrisy of self-appointed book burners, the anti-biblical family kook brigade, and professional name-callers who want to label people racists because they quote famous Christian slave owners (i.e. Abraham and Sarah, George Washington, Jonathan Edwards, etc., etc.), but think nothing of promoting literature which praises slave owners like Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, or Mary Lincoln (wife to the president, who grew up in a family that kept slaves). Understandably, Dr. Baucham has little patience for those whose personal agenda, and government school-trained view of history, allows them to conveniently skip over Abraham Lincoln’s overt bigotry and white separatism (maintained through the Civil War), while excoriating great Christians who were men of their time and who, regretfully, maintained similar views.