One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love

by John M. Perkins

There is no institution on earth more equipped and capable of bringing transformation to the cause of reconciliation than the Church.

I agree with Michael Card when he says, “Jesus understood that lament was the only true response of faith to the brokenness and fallenness of the world. It provides the only trustworthy bridge to God across the deep seismic quaking of our lives…. It seems to me that we do not need to be taught how to lament. What we need is simply the assurance that we can lament. We all carry deep within ourselves a pressurized reservoir of tears. It takes only the right key at the right time to unlock them…. in God’s perfect time, through lament, when these tears are released, they can form a vast healing flood.”3