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Embodied Faith vs. White American Christianity

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Earlier this week I asked “If you could change one thing about American Christianity, one specific thing, what would it be?”   The responses were fantastic.  And here’s mine (and it is specific, but it would mean changing many other things).  Embodied Faith American Christianity—and really I’m talking about “white” American Christianity (of the right […]

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Open Letter to White Christians: When it Comes to Racism, Changing Hearts Isn’t Biblical Enough

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To all my conservative white brothers and sister: The idea that racism can only be cured by changing hearts and minds is a failure to be biblical.   Let me get straight to the point: God didn’t consider “changing hearts” the only cure for sin.  And if we aren’t going to follow God’s lead, then […]

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Deeper Than We Thought (3): Drug War Myths

  Post One and Two (This just happened: While writing this post on The New Jim Crow at a coffee shop an African American man asks me about the book and then tells me that he advised his son NOT to bring his car to college because the dad was worried his son would be arrested in […]

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Deeper than We Thought (1): Our Society’s Sin

The Journey of Redemption  I’ve found in my journey of redemption that I don’t necessary sin egregiously in every category. Rather I’ve found I often keep struggling with the same two or three sins that seem to go all the way down to my core. Every time I think I’m done with that sin God will gently […]