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They lose attention because many of their teachers have lost attention, shed it in the heat of a formation that narrowed intellectual excellence down to one kind of performance, one kind of white body-mind.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
Because now that the whole world has been disenchanted and we have been encased in a flattened “nature,” I expect it will be forms of reenchanted Christianity that will actually have a future.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Whiteness invites us to imagine that we become visible to ourselves and others only through its narration of our lives. This was, however, much more than a thought exercise gone terribly wrong. It was inherent to the way Europeans transformed the world into private property and reorganized intellectual life within their cognitive empire.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
of the land. Here theologians recognize the passionate character of theological language. It is a language of celebration and joy that the freedom promised is already present in the community's struggle for liberation.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
Heal Us, Emmanuel: A Call for Racial Reconciliation, Representation, and Unity in the Church
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The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity
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Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice
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