Love L. Sechrest

Fourteen scholars give their take on how to free the gospel of Jesus from the sin of White Supremacy and a history of racism, blood purity, colonialism, and imperialism. The consensus is variously stated as “Ubantu kenosis,” “perichoresis,” and to “make communal-political activity and social witness an integral—not optional—part of Christian mission.”

In his paper Andrew T. Draper proposes to his fellow Caucasians, “five practices in which White folks must engage to resist the sociopolitical order of whiteness: first, repentance for complicity in systematic sin; second, learning from theological and cultural resources not our own; third, choosing to locate our lives in places and structures in which we are necessarily guest; fourth, tangible submission to non-White ecclesial leadership; and fifth, hearing and speaking of the glory of God in unfamiliar cadences.” (page 181)… (altro)