When we look at the primary concerns and practices of most American Christians, our worldviews and frames of reference reveal a belief system that is influenced more by an individualistic western culture than by Christian theology.
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As a black woman in Western society, there is no other way to say it: I am at the bottom. In the limited imagination of our culture, both Western heroes and their muses embody the qualities opposite to my personhood.
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When you look at the kinds of themes that recur throughout the Gospel stories, it cannot be doubted that Jesus’ heart was always upon those who lacked power.
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People say that being a pastor is hard, but I would argue that being a pastor’s wife might be even more difficult.
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When well-intentioned white pastors leap to cultivate a multiethnic community without, as it were, taking a good dose of peroxide to the aforementioned gaping wound of racism in the US past and present, it leads to repackaging white superiority—instead of truly cleansing it from our congregations.
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