Christianity Today admitted in the days after the March on Washington. “Our folks are sympathetic with solving the race problem,” one leader was quick to say, “but we feel that this wasn’t the way to go about it.” The editorial plaintively asked, “But what is the way?”81 Exhibiting a profound uneasiness, many white evangelicals could not bring themselves to proactively support the movement, yet they also worried that the evangelical church was somehow failing in its responsibility.
