Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now

by Brenda Salter McNeil

However, our Christianity does not have to be a story about slave masters who converted us and about our finding Christ in spite of their cruelty. That is a metanarrative of God only working through whites that we must scrutinize and totally abandon.

This means that our specific work requires decolonizing our own minds and seeing the ways we have bought into white supremacy.

It is deeply disturbing that so many Christians think that racial reconciliation is some kind of liberal, politically motivated social agenda that has nothing to do with their faith as followers of Jesus Christ.

It is also an indictment of the church that so many Christians don’t know that the gospel includes reconciliation across racial, gender, ethnic, social, and cultural barriers. Our call to discipleship is an invitation to follow Jesus into a new community.