Healing is not accidental. It is not coincidental. Healing in our lives, our thinking, etc., is intentional. It is a process.
This is the journey I have been on and the journey I will be on for the rest of my life. (I almost typed “God willing”, but I know it is God’s will.)
Read moreSome tips from Resmaa Menakem on how we can cause trauma today in the lives of black friends if we are not careful:
Read moreThere is no such thing as race. None… Scientifically, anthropologically, racism is a construct — a social construct. And it has benefits. Money can be made off of it, and people who don’t like themselves can feel better because of it. It can describe certain kinds of behavior that are wrong or misleading. — Toni Morrison
Read moreI will say this plainly: the derisive use of “CRT” and “woke” among (mostly) white male evangelical/fundamentalist leaders and “authorities” is the 2021 version of the “N” word in the 1960s. Words matter. HOW we use those words matter.
Read moreJust say the word and our white conservative evangelical minds explode.
So, here is an entire podcast episode to avoid.
The money quote: “Fox News is the biggest purveyor of critical theory.”
This clip is incredibly powerful and serves as a sharp example of a prophetic word.
The further in and deeper down black preachers go into white evangelicalism the more anti-justice and anti-black they become.
Many Black pastors have said, “Thank you so much for writing this book.” Or young Black people who find themselves in evangelical spaces coming out of the Black church said, “There’s finally a book that helps me explain where I come from.”
Read moreThis is the era in which I grew up. Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority. Right to Life. Republican Party. God bless America. All rolled into one.
Over the years I began to extract myself from that. Remnants remain and I will probably always be picking out small roots that fiercely remain. Kristin Kobes DuMez brings all that brief history flooding back in her bestseller Jesus and John Wayne. There are some hard realities I am reminded of as I read this book.
Read moreThese three quick responses showed up right in a row in my Twitter feed.
My heart breaks all over again.
