Racism

“In an earlier blog I emphasized the importance of moral clarity for an effective protest. The case of George Floyd dripped with moral clarity — so much so that 78% of the country agreed that Derek Chauvin … should have been arrested immediately. However, such a national consensus and borderline unity was intolerable for the anarchists. It was necessary for them to muddy the moral waters to accomplish their objectives.

“Steve King calls his loss in Tuesday’s primary a victory in the ‘effort to push out the strongest voice for full-spectrum constitutional, Christian conservatism.’ But the election results tell a different story. It was, to use a slightly dated term, the religious right who threw King out in favor of state Sen. Randy Feenstra.” - WExaminer

“According to this narrative, Evangelical leaders mainly supported abortion rights. They jumped into the culture war only when the IRS moved to strip the tax exemptions from racially discriminatory schools. Opposition to integration is the poisonous acorn that grew into the mighty political oak of conservative Christianity.” - David French

“Vigilantism is wrong, dangerous, and sinful. It is wrong because it operates outside of the law. It is dangerous because it often leads to violence. It is sinful because at its core it is contrary to how God designed government to work.” - Jesse Johnson

“In his beautifully written new book, Thomas Chatterton Williams disputes the notion that his blackness should be central to his identity.” - National Review

“The Southern Baptist Convention will be observing its annual ‘Racial Reconciliation Sunday’ on Feb. 9, with this year’s emphasis being on the cultivation of multiethnic churches.” - Christian Post

“A Public Religion Research Institute study found that in a 100-friend scenario, white people had just one black friend, one Hispanic friend and one Asian friend. The other 97 were white. Black people didn’t do much better. Out of 100 friends, they had 8 white friends, two Hispanic friends and no Asian friends.” - Church Leaders

“I have read several white supremacists who deny that they are racist. They say that they are just trying to maintain a certain culture and history. This fails to understand that ethnicities have history and ethnicity, races do not. Calling it a ‘white’ culture and history, then placing that culture in opposition to other races, has the effect of undermining our unity in Adam.” - Jesse Johnson

“Is this the sort of thing with which First Things, that highbrow ecumenical journal of religion in public life, wants its brand to be associated? Would the journal’s late founder, Father Neuhaus, be proud?” - Madeline Fry