Our unwillingness to soberly address history, acknowledge systemic sin, reckon with our ancestors’ sins, and answer Scripture’s call to corporate responsibility leads us to forsake lament. Rah expounds, “Lament calls for an authentic encounter with the truth and challenges privilege, because privilege would hide the truth that creates discomfort.”16 He concludes, “The dismantling of privilege requires the disavowal of any pretense of exceptionalism.”17
