One of the challenges we now face is that the culture and norms of the white dominant group are always presumed to be right and moral, and not in need of patient and careful investigation. This is evident wherever Western European colonizers and missionaries have imposed their culture and values through mission and church life. Today, you could go to every continent on the earth on any given Sunday and find Western–style church buildings with organs and pianos on opposing sides of the pulpit and with pictures of white Jesus prominently positioned. The pastors and most of the church members
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