Tori

“It's nothing short of astonishing that a religious tradition with this relentless emphasis on salvation and one so hyperattuned to personal sin can simultaneously maintain such blindness to social sins swirling about it, such as slavery and race-based segregation and bigotry.”
― Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

“Given the individualism that is endemic to much of white Christianity, it will be important to regularly teach the communal nature of the Lord’s Supper. If we are to be shaped toward solidarity by the Communion meal, this note will need to be sounded more clearly by preachers and teachers.”
― David W. Swanson, Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity

“If discipleship practices offer the means to lead us from segregation to solidarity, lament provides the mood. We dare not come to this ministry of reconciliation with any other posture. We move forward humbly, as those only slowly awakening to the extent of the damage done by our previously defective discipleship. The road ahead will often feel unnatural to those of us who’ve been discipled in the narrative of racial difference. For those who’ve known only racial privilege, the journey toward equitable reconciliation will sting at times. We are accustomed to segregation, novices on this journey to solidarity. And so we must practice.”
― David W. Swanson, Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity

“I want to stay on the back porch while the world tilts toward sleep, until what I love misses me, and calls me in.”
― Dorianne Laux