Perspective | Raphael Warnock’s Georgia Critics Don’t Understand Black Churches
added by Jonathan Simcoe · updated 2y ago
Perspective | Raphael Warnock’s Georgia Critics Don’t Understand Black Churches
The Lord knows there is much to criticize in the church, but I doubt that relentless, unsympathetic, exasperated censure against one specific people is the best way to convince them of your criticisms, let alone build them up in Christ.
from The Temptation of the Jeremiad by wng.org
Jonathan Simcoe added
- some of our commonly held “wisdoms” around religion are missing crucial context, and in the process, are letting many nefarious forces in this world go unchecked and under-examined. In addition, some of these talking points and universal claims about religion are unintentionally reproducing notions of othering, racism, and Western supremacy—even th... See more
from Do We Really Want to Give God Away? by Religiously Blonde
Keely Adler added
What Paul is saying is that the gospel strengthens us through the Spirit to see things in our society that others do not. We are called, as the people of God, to wake up. To see what others don’t and call it out. The church in America is not awake to the reality of what is happening in communities across this nation, and we are missing out on our c
... See morefrom Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice by Eric Mason