This session presents practical ways to address the current state of racial injustice in America, including ecclesiastical reparations, taking down confederate monuments, learning from the black church how to lament and rejoice, starting a diverse seminary, hosting freedom schools and pilgrimages, making Juneteenth a national holiday, denouncing racism, and starting a civil rights movement toward the church.
When it comes to racism, the American church does not have a “how to” problem but a “want to” problem. The primary reason more of us do not exhibit the strength and courage required to root out racism is *fear.* The time for the American church’s complicity in racism has long passed. It is time t...
