Large segments of the American church have lost all moral authority to speak prophetically against racism because they continue to practice it. This tends to happen in subtle ways—sharing the works of people who practiced slavery without any context or criticism; continually hosting panels, conferences, and other events that feature only white men; Christian schools making peace with the presence of buildings named after racists or featuring their statues on campus grounds; harboring an uncritical opinion that Republicans represent the “Christian political party” in spite of increasingly overt
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