But Martin Luther King Jr. gave an important rationale for shining a light on injustice, despite the pain it may provoke. “Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light,” he wrote, “injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.”9 King’s words apply to racism in the church. The festering wound of racism in the American church must be exposed to the oxygen of truth in order to be
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