To have a ministry with humanity calls us to be proximate to pain, regardless of race or life situation. Pain, struggle, and woundedness cannot be avoided. It is the broader context for ministry as a whole. Even for the topic of race and racism, “as people of faith, we are all called to attend to the suffering of one another. In order to attend to this suffering, we need to first acknowledge that it exists. Racism continues to exist and refusing to name it will not make it go away.”32 Racialization will not go away in this world, yet this does not mean that we should not strive in the Spirit
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