When Multiculturalism is Conservative and Christian
by Marvin Olasky
Posted Jan 04, 2007

My fellow professors talk the talk of multiculturalism but don't walk the walk when it leads them in directions they don't want to go -- toward what the left calls sexism, homophobia and Christian fundamentalism.

For example, the religious left often claims that U.S. and European Christians twisted Christ into a god made in their own image. The Huffington Post Web site ran a claim by liberal minister Jim Rigby that "many Christians seek a white male king" and (Europeans) "could not see Christ in non-male, non-European, and non-Christian people because they were limited by their theology."

Rigby concluded with a call to teach our children to abandon "the dictator Christ of this culture." But is the idea of God with authority the product of our culture? Last summer I worshipped at a house church in Beijing, and the previous summer relished a service in a Zambian megahut. Crucially, those Asians and Africans see Jesus as Lord, not just a pal. Secondarily, they have conservative positions on homosexuality, gender and other issues that are dividing the American church. the rest