Almost everyone in America is talking about racial issues this year. Are you as a church?
5 Reasons Every Church Needs to Talk about Racial Issues (even when they’re not directly affected)
Tag: racial injustice
Another Black Man Has Been Shot
Another incident has happened that communicates to the black community their lives don’t matter, and the rest of us are nowhere closer to understanding why a man being shot in the back seven times by police communicates to black people that they don’t, in fact, matter.
We’re Still Missing the Point of “I Can’t Breathe”
Until we’re broken over racial injustice to the point where we spend time on our knees weeping over it, until we can sit and listen to and allow our worldview to be shaped by our brothers and sisters of color, and until we can acknowledge that those feeling oppressed play a key role in explaining what justice looks like we are still missing the point of “I can’t breathe.”
Dear Church, Please Don’t Deflect Responsibility for Racial Justice
I hope we don’t make the mistake of thinking that because the oppressed responded by rioting we as the church don’t need to be active in speaking up and fighting for racial justice.
It’s Time for Whites to Grieve
Can we pause a moment and simply hear the cries of the people? Can we lay aside excuses for deflecting ownership of the sin of racism and simply sit with our black brothers and sisters in their pain, hearing the horrors they tried telling us about while we refused to listen?
