Thread by @solomonmissouri

So here's a thing...

https://twitter.com/Brick_Outhouse/status/1323267958563655680

We talk about policy.

We are not on the sidelines concerning politics... Because politics are values practiced systemically

Policy is discussed from the pulpit

We've done workshops on gentrification, census, voting... Because these are issues that effect my community

The only way we increase the political calculus of faith spaces is by talking... So we talked

We can't embody spiritual liberation and not discuss the ways that we get free

And I'm sure that our community of faith would make some folks... Uncomfortable

Good... Discomfort is the spirit telling us something is wrong

Community is where we do soul work... Your politics are a reflection of the work of your soul.

The difficulty we have in faith spaces discussing policy is that political discussions have been co-opted by the myopathy of white evangelicals

*looks around* ...Dem white folks would have you to believe that abortion is a political position... It's not... Access to care is a political position... Decisions in care are between a person and their doctor

A personal position=\= policy

Black folks don't have the luxury of wilful ignorance and calling it faith... We are actually impacted by political systems

When then white folks started talmbout "we can't defund the police" I preached a message about how we can and should

"I love Jesus"
Jesus didn't have a home and... Black folks face housing insecurity... Policy is in the bones of the black church

Black folks don't have the luxury to faun over a heavenly home and the ambivalence of "white Jesus" ... We are invested in the work of liberation