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“The whole church desperately needs to renounce all forms of lording over others and all forms of centralizing white normativity. We need to make sure that the whole church can be seated around the table of God together as equals, where only Jesus is centralized and Lord over all.”
― Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism
― Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism
“The disproportionate policing, stop-and-frisk encounters, arrests, and incarceration of racial minorities ought to awaken the church, because Jesus himself called for us to visit the imprisoned (Matthew 25:34-46) and to bring release to the captives (Luke 4:18-19).”
― Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism
― Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism
“Merely focusing on obeying the law is an intentionally shortsighted and irresponsible posture for disciples of Jesus. With that logic, a Christian who lived in 1850 would have had to fully endorse slavery. I believe that Augustine was right when he said, more than fifteen hundred years ago, that “an unjust law is no law at all.”
― Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism
― Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism
“Jesus’ own experience of being arrested at night, put through an unfair trial, and then given a state-sanctioned execution should be the interpretive key for Christians in understanding the inability of empires to dispense true justice.”
― Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism
― Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism
“Subdominant groups need not depend merely on stereotypes created from a distance about “the other” when they are able to share personal stories and experiences within their communities that, when collected, reveal troubling widespread realities. Altogether, the oppressed have an epistemological advantage that allows them to see things more clearly than those whose vision is blocked by denial and distorted by faulty claims of objectivity.”
― Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism
― Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism
Mary Beth’s 2025 Year in Books
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