All this time and I've never done a foot washing clip!
"I want a young black man up here, because he represents some things...This young man doesn't just represent black America. This young man represents all minorities for this moment."
Dennis Rouse, Victory Church, Atlanta
The washee is never named
This is from 2017, before the Kendi-DiAngelo explosion
"We all know about the Holocaust, but for some reason, [the trans-Atlantic slave trade] has never been really advertised too much, because my race, we don't want to feel guilty.
And I'm not saying you should feel guilty, because you didn't do that, but your race did."
Nothing in The Office comes close
"God accepts you. He's the great equalizer. When he came to the cross he came to equalize everybody. To take slaves + make them equal to the free. And make the woman + the man equal. And make the poor + the white equal. I mean, the poor + the rich."
The very end of this one 😑
Never forget: Tim Keller is the OG "white people/poor people" gaffe-master.
"I care about the history of my race against your race, and I'm sorry. I repent. I didn't do it myself personally, but I take responsibility for my own race. Because Jesus didn't do anything to hurt people, but he took responsibility for them...when he went to the cross."
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At the opening of the United Methodist Church's General Conference, attendees are warned to avoid "exclusively male language for God" and to "be conscious of inferred power dynamics."
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