Mary Beth

“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).”
― Drew G.I. Hart, 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.”
― Drew G.I. Hart, Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

“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.”
― Drew G.I. Hart, Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

“Taking for granted that God is with them, most people grow up always presuming what God is like. Many intuitively believe that God blesses America and thinks of it as a divine vehicle in the world. God’s America is (or was) mostly an innocent Christian nation. We can throw out clichés like “God is sovereign,” “God is all-knowing,” “God is [fill in the blank]” because we have God in our doctrinal box. Unfortunately, dominant cultural reflections on God rarely adhere with the revelation of Jesus as specifically attested to in Scripture.”
― Drew G.I. Hart, Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism