Whenever we try to start with the personal work of reconstructing the gospel, the individualism of the faith we’ve inherited almost guarantees that we miss the essential context of our personal conversion in community. But if we stop short of the personal work—if we deceive ourselves into thinking that we can reconstruct the gospel without addressing our divided souls, then we carry the germ of white supremacy with us into our most noble efforts to rid this world’s systems of racism. Nothing is uglier than the inevitable explosion when white people try to participate in antiracist work without
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