For what it's worth, the church is listening. Or at least hearing. Job candidates are being asked directly what they think of you (e.g. of #defundChurchwide).
Pr. Lenny, In Dear Church, you point to our church's White ways of working (preaching, singing) with both music and scripture that merit deconstruction. In the last month, we have heard Gospel lessons from Matthew, parables that rely upon the king/slave castes of being (18, Unmerciful Servant; 22, Wedding Banquet for tomorrow's lesson). My question is this: what do folx in the pews do in response to these narratives? Historicizing isn't cutting it for me, and I'm just a lay person sitting in the digital pew right now. How do preachers in this church blow up the king/slave structures effectively? We need to read differently, explicate differently, and I seek something more than sweet church-lady respectabilility--let's just say 'servant' instead. Is it viable for leadership to yank these passages out of their historical comfort zone, and hold them up for scrutiny? How have they been used to perpetuate racial castes in the American Christian tradition of a church that has never been separate from the interests of the White state? Best, Debra
For what it's worth, the church is listening. Or at least hearing. Job candidates are being asked directly what they think of you (e.g. of #defundChurchwide).
I'm noticing that the gofundme has closed for donations... is there another place we can send funds at this time?
Pr. Lenny, In Dear Church, you point to our church's White ways of working (preaching, singing) with both music and scripture that merit deconstruction. In the last month, we have heard Gospel lessons from Matthew, parables that rely upon the king/slave castes of being (18, Unmerciful Servant; 22, Wedding Banquet for tomorrow's lesson). My question is this: what do folx in the pews do in response to these narratives? Historicizing isn't cutting it for me, and I'm just a lay person sitting in the digital pew right now. How do preachers in this church blow up the king/slave structures effectively? We need to read differently, explicate differently, and I seek something more than sweet church-lady respectabilility--let's just say 'servant' instead. Is it viable for leadership to yank these passages out of their historical comfort zone, and hold them up for scrutiny? How have they been used to perpetuate racial castes in the American Christian tradition of a church that has never been separate from the interests of the White state? Best, Debra