But those who claim "traditional values" to defend unjust policies do not represent the tradition of David George, George Liele, and Brother Palmer. We who speak out in public life to insist that God cares about love, justice, and mercy and to call people of faith to stand with the poor, the uninsured, the undocumented, and the incarcerated are often accused of preaching something new.
An increasingly diverse America is tired of the old slaveholder religion.īut this is why the freedom church that David George joined in the late 1760s is so important. It doubled down on the Lost Cause, endorsed racial terrorism during the Redemption era, blessed the leaders of Jim Crow, and continues to endorse racist policies as traditional values under the guise of a "religious right." As a Christian minister myself, I understand why, for my entire ministry, the number of people who choose not to affiliate with any religious tradition has doubled each decade. “Though slavery officially ended after the Civil War, the Christianity that blessed white supremacy did not go away. I’d rather focus on their faces, their names.”įour Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Though I know who caught them, sold them, bought them, I’m not qualified.Īnd you? How’s your reach? Are you qualified? A grief so thick I could touch it.Īnd Jesus said of his wound, Go on, touch it.īut I don’t have the reach. Think of life after life on the Atlantic. Think of those who landed in the Atlantic,
I’d like to write a list of what we lost. Think of those who landed in the Atlanticīodies walking upright on the mud at the bottomĪfter life on the Atlantic-this present griefĪnd Jesus said of his wound Go on, touch it
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