"What if racism is a disorder + the majority of the white population does have it? They're dealing with a mental illness + they don't even know it...post-traumatic slave-MASTER disorder."
Nathaniel McGuire, "postmodern therapy" provider, speaking to Renewal Church of Chicago
"Words+Motion" from Seattle's Quest Church (founded by Eugene Cho) on MLK Sunday. The name given for the narrator is listed on the church staff page as director of operations.
"Entrenched in America's endeavor for greatness is a carefully systematized lineage of power..."
(1/4)
"Show me any American institution forged by the ideals of a dominant white culture + I'll show you systems mass-produced to disseminate imbalances of power...living while black, breathing while black has become a gradual yielding to a more evolved reality of segregation."
(2/4)
"Fraudulent are the persons who are silent + inanimate to the horrific violence of police brutality against black bodies in America. Fraudulent are the persons who perpetuate systems of racial segregation in any form to appease the comforts of race + cultural supremacy."
Watched Matt Chandler's latest sermon last week, "Ethnic Harmony," and there's a moment that's stuck in my craw. I know I'm gonna get dunked on for clipping it, because it sounds very 💌nice! So I'll do more than just my usual and break down what seems wrong with it.
"I'm trying to give you lenses by which to study your Bible...From that being your foundation, I would just encourage you to seek out other things to read that'll stretch you." (1/2)
"If I'm reading your stuff + you start talking to me about rescuing evangelicalism from colonialism...that evangelicalism has been co-opted by whiteness...what I've had to discipline myself to do is not throw people in categories but try to figure out what might be there." (2/2)
yOuR cHrIsTiAn AuThOrItY oN tHe ElEcTiOn... hasn't mentioned either person on one of the two presidential tickets since... last May. (The 15h ago tweet is a reply to someone who tagged Biden + Harris)
"There are at minimum 2 purportedly Christian faiths in the US: one committed to the whole of scripture and its implications on the whole of life, and one committed to using scripture to uphold a way of life."
Leonce Crump
"Making God's sovereignty, for the Reformed camp, or substitutionary atonement, for all others, the very center of the redemptive story, rather than God' covenant, prevents them from fighting for economic and ethnic justice."
"Will our allegiance be to the God who stands on the side of the oppressed...or to the God that promises nationalistic power...who ignores wicked systems while supposedly transforming wicked hearts?"
"This is core curriculum, not as it relates to how I get into the kingdom, but it is a significant indicator light that I know the kingdom has gotten into me...A racially indifferent Christian is an oxymoron."
"Gomer is being sex trafficked. She's incarcerated...to emancipate the one who cheated on him cost [Hosea] everything...If you say you're serious about diversity but your institution is not making costly moves that do violence to the cultural norms, you ain't loving."
<Note: snipped a small bit of silence to fit in Twitter's 2:20 limit>
Next up: @namb_sbc's "Undivided" video series. It's not as cartoonish as Anthony ONeal's #WhitePanel but has a very similar vibe.
"If I'm a Jewish person in the first century context + I think of a Gentile, historically, I think 400 years of slavery in Egypt..." @DerwinLGray
@NAMB_SBC@DerwinLGray "That Jerusalem Council was like 'how do we eliminate the obstacles,' and the way they explained their rationale is: we don't want to make it hard for the Gentiles to come to God. So I want to say I don't want to make it hard for our black neighbors to hear the gospel." @jdgreear