one Wheaton administrator confessed, “if you think that you do not consider white culture superior to black culture, yet you continue to know nothing about their culture, then you may be a member of a racist community.”88 For most white evangelical students and administrators, the presence of black students proved far more difficult than they had imagined, in part because it forced them to encounter their own whiteness. Thinking about whiteness was theologically disturbing for many evangelicals, for it raised the possibility that their faith was not unmediated divine truth but was instead a
...more
