Thanks for reading, engaging and sharing your thoughts! I appreciate your willingness and openness to be challenged by hearing different perspectives of brothers & sisters in Christ.
Just to clarify - I do not think all evil and racism originates with the white man. I can see how my overt focus on white supremacy (given my background as someone raised in a recently colonized country now living & serving in a context where white supremacy caused transatlantic slavery, colonization, segregation & genocide) may make it seem that way but I don’t believe I’ve explicitly said that because I don’t really believe that to be true.
While white supremacy is certainly a dominant form of racism in our world today (and certainly in my readers’ contexts), it is certainly not the only form and origin of racism. As for evil, I think evil can be traced all the way back to the Fall in Genesis 3. But the Good News is that Genesis 3 also promises a Saviour who will crush the head of all injustice & oppression - beginning with his death & resurrection and completed by his return when everything will be made new.
Thanks for giving me a chance to clarify and appreciate you reading and humbly engaging brother.
PS: I used to be a conservative Republican political consultant in Georgia so I have the highest empathy for my politically conservative brothers & sisters. Pursuing justice with Jesus and engaging with people on the margins shattered that for me over the past many years so I don’t hold to political categories for myself anymore. I just try to be faithful in pursuing Jesus and his just kingdom - regardless of which political side I end up agreeing with.
Hahaha yes - Canadian conservatism (despite its recent rightward shifts) has been a breath of fresh air coming from the US and reminds me of the Bush-era Compassionate Conservatism that is nowhere to be found in the US Republican Party of today. And I say that as someone who genuinely tried to push for that from within as an up & coming party leader.
Hey Jesse -
Thanks for reading, engaging and sharing your thoughts! I appreciate your willingness and openness to be challenged by hearing different perspectives of brothers & sisters in Christ.
Just to clarify - I do not think all evil and racism originates with the white man. I can see how my overt focus on white supremacy (given my background as someone raised in a recently colonized country now living & serving in a context where white supremacy caused transatlantic slavery, colonization, segregation & genocide) may make it seem that way but I don’t believe I’ve explicitly said that because I don’t really believe that to be true.
While white supremacy is certainly a dominant form of racism in our world today (and certainly in my readers’ contexts), it is certainly not the only form and origin of racism. As for evil, I think evil can be traced all the way back to the Fall in Genesis 3. But the Good News is that Genesis 3 also promises a Saviour who will crush the head of all injustice & oppression - beginning with his death & resurrection and completed by his return when everything will be made new.
Thanks for giving me a chance to clarify and appreciate you reading and humbly engaging brother.
PS: I used to be a conservative Republican political consultant in Georgia so I have the highest empathy for my politically conservative brothers & sisters. Pursuing justice with Jesus and engaging with people on the margins shattered that for me over the past many years so I don’t hold to political categories for myself anymore. I just try to be faithful in pursuing Jesus and his just kingdom - regardless of which political side I end up agreeing with.
Hahaha yes - Canadian conservatism (despite its recent rightward shifts) has been a breath of fresh air coming from the US and reminds me of the Bush-era Compassionate Conservatism that is nowhere to be found in the US Republican Party of today. And I say that as someone who genuinely tried to push for that from within as an up & coming party leader.