it should be obvious that liking White things (skinny jeans, indie rock, green bean casserole, and John Milbank, for instance) is not in itself the problem. The problem is that said particularities have been elevated as universally normative and theologically central, all the while being cloaked in conceptions of neutrality. I am attempting to demonstrate, as a White scholar-pastor being remade through joining, what it means for White people to work against whiteness. Theologically speaking, whiteness will not be overcome through uncritical reassertions of tradition but in learning to accept,
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