White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White

by Daniel Hill

Each era of growth for our community has been beautiful but has also overlapped with confusion about what to do next. Disorientation is an unavoidable stage if you embark seriously on a cultural identity journey, so it’s not worth investing energy in a futile attempt to avoid those feelings. It’s more helpful to understand why we feel disoriented and to learn to push forward even as we feel uncertain of our footing. As you follow the transformational path from blindness to sight, a variety of factors may lead to disorientation. Each is important to understand, and each needs to be conquered if you are to keep moving forward. Here are the four most significant contributors to the disorientation stage: lack of exposure low stamina limited theological understanding crisis of identity