“History demonstrates that racism never goes away; it just adapts.”
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
“Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous.”
― Just Mercy
― Just Mercy
“The church is God saying: 'I'm throwing a banquet, and all these mismatched, messed-up people are invited. Here, have some wine.”
― Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
― Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
“Jumping ahead to the victories means skipping the hard but necessary work of examining what went wrong with race and the church.”
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
“As Brené Brown puts it, “I went to church thinking it would be like an epidural, that it would take the pain away . . . But church isn’t like an epidural; it’s like a midwife . . . I thought faith would say, ‘I’ll take away the pain and discomfort, but what it ended up saying was, ‘I’ll sit with you in it.”
― Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
― Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
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