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1955 and 2020
Over time when visiting Montgomery, Alabama we’ve been able to visit different significant spots regarding Civil Rights history. One we regularly visit is not the place itself, but where the business is located. We always frequent Prevail Coffee when in Montgomery because their coffee is great, but it’s also built on the site of the old Kress Department Store, where…
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Our civil rights moment
One quote I saw going around on social media went something like this: “If you wondered if you would stand up for civil rights in the 1960s, what you’re doing right now is what you would be doing back then.”
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The straw man argument of “BLACK LIVES MATTER” and Marxism
It’s taking me two days to work my way through the foreword and introduction of Dennis Edwards’ new book Might from the Margins: The Gospel’s Power to Turn the Tables on Injustice. I read a paragraph, put the book down, weep and repent, then try to get through the next paragraph. There is a paragraph to quote here from his…
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This IS us…
This was said a little over a year ago. It is still heartbreaking… and true.
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We have failed to see beauty
One of the prayers (collects) in the Book of Common Prayer (2019) is “For the Diversity of Races and Cultures”:
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Let’s repair the breach before it’s too wide
I have been hard on my evangelical, fundamentalist roots for a long time. It hasn’t really led to more discussion as much as it has led to a lot of silence. Nevertheless, I press on. These are things that need to take place. Tough conversations. Tough action.
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Rooting out our deep sin
The deep sin of racism is far more embedded in white American Christianity than we are willing to admit. We struggle in our collective sin mainly because evangelical Christianity (and fundamentalism on the right) focuses on the “individual” sin to the detriment of recognizing community sin. Examples:
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Righteousness and Justice must come together
A couple of significant thoughts from significant voices: The American Church, in all its failings, still has work to which it is called. We must rise up.
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As white Christians we have a deep work still to be done in us
“The relationship between holding racist views and white Christian identity is actually stronger among more frequent church attenders than among less frequent church attenders.”
Tag: Racism
