Sublime

At a time of ethnic strife, pandemics, and climate crisis, our human capacity to act collectively is more important than ever.

We were using people to build church instead of growing people who changed culture.

When JB talked about being a conduit, he talked about being a conduit for God, but he was in fact a conduit for Scott Valdez.

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When we hear that “we” were attacked, do we think “we” the church or “we” as Americans? What is our primary identity? When the Bush administration said that a way of life was being attacked, it was true, but it was not the gospel that was being attacked. It is no coincidence that what was attacked wasn’t the World Council of Churches but the symbol

Americans in their fight against white supremacy, I cannot limit God's revelation to Jesus or to the fight against white racism. God's reality is much bigger than the black experience and the concepts black theologians create from it. No one people's language and experience are capable of capturing the full reality and presence of God.

“Any gospel that does not…speak to the issue of enslavement” and “injustice” and “inequality—any gospel that does not want to go where people are hungry and poverty-stricken and set them free in the name of Jesus Christ—is not the gospel.”