56 min
Being Black in a White Church We Are The Middle
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- Cristianismo
Look, we know that the Church has taken some hits with the current social issues. The response and disengagement from followers is not lost on us. As two people who grew up in the Westernized Christian Church, we recognize that our experiences are not all negative, but there are certain things that we still wrestle with. Whether it’s the church, society, or other corporate body, we have all been disappointed and/or disillusioned by their response to issues that marginalized groups face. How do we move in this? Where is the middle road? How do we hold these two things in tension with each other? We talk a lot about the church, but I think we can all share similar hurts and reckonings with systems that are causing more harm than good. This is our raw and vulnerable conversation about experiences with the church.
Books and Articles Mentioned:
1. Whitford, David M (David Mark). “A Calvinist Heritage to the ‘Curse of Ham’: Assessing the Accuracy of a Claim about Racial Subordination.” Church History and Religious Culture 90, no. 1 (2010): 25–45.
2. The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby: We recommend the book and the accompanying video series
Follow us on Instagram: @wearethemiddleshow
Email us: WeAreTheMiddleShow@gmail.com
Subscribe to our newsletter here
Look, we know that the Church has taken some hits with the current social issues. The response and disengagement from followers is not lost on us. As two people who grew up in the Westernized Christian Church, we recognize that our experiences are not all negative, but there are certain things that we still wrestle with. Whether it’s the church, society, or other corporate body, we have all been disappointed and/or disillusioned by their response to issues that marginalized groups face. How do we move in this? Where is the middle road? How do we hold these two things in tension with each other? We talk a lot about the church, but I think we can all share similar hurts and reckonings with systems that are causing more harm than good. This is our raw and vulnerable conversation about experiences with the church.
Books and Articles Mentioned:
1. Whitford, David M (David Mark). “A Calvinist Heritage to the ‘Curse of Ham’: Assessing the Accuracy of a Claim about Racial Subordination.” Church History and Religious Culture 90, no. 1 (2010): 25–45.
2. The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby: We recommend the book and the accompanying video series
Follow us on Instagram: @wearethemiddleshow
Email us: WeAreTheMiddleShow@gmail.com
Subscribe to our newsletter here
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