![]() ![]() Of the state of our current conversation and his deeply charitable approach in What drives this work and sets it apart is the author’s superlative understanding ![]() Nor does theīook attempt an entirely new take or uniquely exhaustive survey of this theme. Manifestations of racism in our ostensibly “color-blind” present. Service of illuminating American Christianity’s role in slavery, Jim Crow, or the He is not the first historian to use his training in Unworthy worship or adopt the heresy that God is a white supremacist.Įnter Jemar Tisby’s The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the AmericanĬhurch’s Complicity in Racism. We couldĮven simply equate Christianity with racism, so as either to renounce the faith as Includes interposing our bodies between oppressed and oppressor. Internal audits within our institutions, or decide that being a part of the Body It in a past beyond our reach, or defend it as justified. We could deny the scope or power of racism, locate There are a great many possibilities open to us, and our present time functionsĪs a crucible for this decision. How shall American Christians understand our relationship to racism? Melissa Rovig Vanden Bout is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Trinity Christian College. ![]()
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