Christian Identity from Rwanda to Durham

Here's a poignant article in Sojourners on the factors contributing to the Rwandan genocide -- The Pattern of this World.

In it, Emmanuel Katongole and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove say Rwandans took on the identities of Tutsi and Hutu over and above their Christian identity. It then draws an analogy with Christians in America (here in Durham, N.C., in particular), saying that we are beset by the same problem of taking on (racial) identities given by the world rather than from Jesus.

I'm not exactly sure why I found this moving. I think it was the combination of the lucid explanation of Rwandan history and the specific Christian call to “not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”