Mary Beth

“Jesus may be our answer, but our projections of Jesus may also be our problem.”
― Drew G.I. Hart, Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

“What we imagine a God could and should do—the God of Jesus Christ has nothing to do with all that.”
― Drew G.I. Hart, Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

“Jesus does not make lording over others an option for his disciples. Unfortunately, most churchgoers today don’t appear to know that. People have found a way to call themselves Christian, which means to be Jesus–shaped, and still chase after power without thinking twice about it. We disregard Jesus’ teaching on power and how we ought not to use it to dominate others. Our practice, though, doesn’t change the fact: Jesus says that it must not be so!”
― Drew G.I. Hart, 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.”
― Drew G.I. Hart, Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism