Some of the cloud of witnesses that have gone before legally constructed race to organize racist governments.

We have conflated whiteness with Christianity so much that when challenged with whiteness, some will feel like their faith has been threatened.—Alexander Jun

Just antiracism requires resisting binary racialized thinking, and attending to the forms of oppression marshalled against each racialized group.

Christians therefore have ecclesiastical reasons to celebrate Stamped from the Beginning’s antiracist gains and lament its binary-induced shortcomings.

“Under ethnological systems of thought, races were gendered as proof of their evolutionary development above other races.” —Tommy Curry

Yes, the thorns hurt, but this pain was different. It emerged from a deeper, longer wound.

We who God has liberated by the covenantal blood of Christ must commit to confronting white supremacy in ourselves, our institutions, and our societal structures.

Presidents and their policy advisors know that Christians have been endorsing and socializing each other to adhere to racist conceptions of governance to the point of including racist law-and-order rhetoric in their catechisms.

This construction of human hands is a grotesque creature, isn’t it?

Amid this hell, many of you are contacting me, asking for materials or practices that will help you navigate the chaos and heal. Let me offer some of each.

If moral instruction must ultimately be particular, it’s no wonder Christians find general instruction to these weighty questions disappointing.

“No racialized group is more criminalized, killed by homicide, or isolated from society as Black males.”—Tommy J. Curry

“To be a mestiz[a/o] is to belong to two realities and at the same time not to belong to either of them.” —Justo González