Once again, most of these were tips from followers. Without you, I'd just be some anon shouting into the digital void. Let's get back to it Monday after we worship together tomorrow!
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Got a tip on Zeal Church, a megachurch in CO. Here, pastor Brandon Cormier brings LEOs on stage to pray for "the good ones" among police, then drops a line that "it's really difficult for white people to go to churches that are pastored by black people."
Then, a live straw poll of the congregation on questions of race... (1/2)
Probably a great way to collect people's phone numbers for comms/marketing. (2/2)
Tyler Burns, the new president of The Witness BCC, says his Christian school gave him "no answers" on these topics (at least in his first year):
-black people
-how to treat the poor
-criminal justice
-the Obamas
-the least of these
"Why doesn't the church center black voices? Can the church talk about black issues without centering voices, and I'm not just talking about on a stage. What about our theology? What about our leadership? What about our ecclesiology?"
Max Lucado's daughter introduces herself, recalling how she "deconstructed purity culture"
"I used the work of...René Girard, who talks about Scapegoat Theory, and found the female body to be @ the center of that theory for evangelicals"
Historian Randall Balmer: "The *real* origins of the religious right are embedded in
[Can you guess? Take a guess]
racism...If the foundation is racism, those timbers are rotten, and the movement itself is rotten, and it has to be addressed."
Moderator Lisa Sharon Harper: "Over the past decade I have become aware of the ways my faith was actually shaped in a political cauldron...in a framework that was literally designed for warfare...designed to have winners+losers...Either right or wrong, no in-between."
This week in WPCs: Some teaching from a PCA megachurch in Atlanta that has planted liberationist hotbeds like Ikon and Renovation (Lecrae's longtime church home)...
To be clear, lament is biblical (James 4:8-10 comes to mind), but "no x without it" needs more justification. How many accounts of conversion/salvation in Acts do we see without it? And isn't "good news lament" a self-refuting phrase?
"God has not called us to treat the poor...people of a different race...in the same manner as we treat everyone else. He's called us to do much more...to actively seek them out, love them, listen to them, learn from them, lament w them, to serve them to an even greater degree."