It’s Not A Terrible, No-Good, Racist Country: We seem to be stuck in a narrative that is true as far as it goes: there is an unacceptable amount of racial injustice in America. Yes! But we also do well to examine people/groups who have been doing things right for years.
I was invited to join a local church's racial justice class (not my own church, and online, of course), and I attempted to politely decline. At the continued urging of one of the organizers, however, I decided to go ahead with it. It is very much what I was expecting, a series of lessons intended help people see their racism while not mentioning, let alone sharing, what is required for real, deep change -- Jesus. God has scarcely been mentioned, apart from prayer at the beginning and end, and a comment or two from other participants that are perhaps as bewildered as I am.
I will continue with this exercise for its remaining weeks, and will undoubtedly learn something, and perhaps have an opportunity to share something that will be heard by some. But it can be difficult to share truth with Christians that apparently don't believe in sin.
I will forego commenting about the 'trans cult' for now, but I'll check out the book.
Your experience has been mine as well. I remember interviewing one diversity administrator at a Christian college who talked about all the things the college was doing to make students more aware of racism, but it was all about social and psychological dynamics. When I asked about spiritual resources to deal with racism, she seemed at a loss as what to say! It's not either/or, of course, but it's interesting how the social and psychological can so easily take over.
I was invited to join a local church's racial justice class (not my own church, and online, of course), and I attempted to politely decline. At the continued urging of one of the organizers, however, I decided to go ahead with it. It is very much what I was expecting, a series of lessons intended help people see their racism while not mentioning, let alone sharing, what is required for real, deep change -- Jesus. God has scarcely been mentioned, apart from prayer at the beginning and end, and a comment or two from other participants that are perhaps as bewildered as I am.
I will continue with this exercise for its remaining weeks, and will undoubtedly learn something, and perhaps have an opportunity to share something that will be heard by some. But it can be difficult to share truth with Christians that apparently don't believe in sin.
I will forego commenting about the 'trans cult' for now, but I'll check out the book.
Thank you,
Megan
Your experience has been mine as well. I remember interviewing one diversity administrator at a Christian college who talked about all the things the college was doing to make students more aware of racism, but it was all about social and psychological dynamics. When I asked about spiritual resources to deal with racism, she seemed at a loss as what to say! It's not either/or, of course, but it's interesting how the social and psychological can so easily take over.