NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernik has refused to stand for the National Anthem during preseason football games as a way to raise awareness to issues surrounding race, discrimination and inequality. Fans have both supported and heckled the athlete for his decision.
From a Christian perspective this statement seems to imply that God is NOT everywhere, present, and fillest all things or that he is present and chooses not to intervene for reasons beyond our understanding. If he is absent in any experience or event, does this imply that God can only be in one place at a time? Would he be God if that were the case?
Racial tensions are high across the U.S. right now. A Gallup poll reported earlier this year that 35 percent of Americans are "worried a great deal" about race relations. That number has more than doubled in two years. We put the issue to our writers: