Obviously this stuff isn’t fixed yet. We can see right now that it isn’t fixed. Ta-Nehisi Coates sees it isn’t fixed; he doesn’t even seem to know if it can be fixed. Your neighbor across the street tries not to think about it, but when he’s alone with his thoughts he suspects it can’t be fixed either. Our discipleship has to deal with this tension—the tension between the glorious reality we believe in and yearn for and the hard reality we currently live in every day—or else it’s not the real Jesus we’re following.
