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“The kingdom of God has become visible right under the surveillance of those who claim supremacy over others through control and domination. These contrasting ways of life offer different promises, different ways of life, and different end goals. The old order is passing away, and the kingdom of God is the future that God has for us that has been ushered into the present. The kingdom of God is already being experienced, in part, right now, for those who are willing to follow and cling to the delivering presence of the living Jesus.”
― Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism
― 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.”
― 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
“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.”
― 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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