If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I? Quotes

“Mature people engage the complexity of the biblical text as it points us to the presence of God without it becoming God or an idol.”
― Angela N. Parker, If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

“I will argue that to question inerrancy or infallibility is not to challenge God or even the biblical text but rather to challenge the White supremacist authoritarianism behind many interpretations of the biblical text.”
― Angela N. Parker, If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

“When a stream of the Christian faith—faith risen from the soil of colonized, serially enslaved Brown people—does not vehemently reject an attempted coup at the US Capitol where crosses, lynching ropes, and military gear find communion, then there is a problem with the construction of that faith.”
― Angela N. Parker, If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

“Every single writer of the entire Bible was a colonized person, under its threat or recently released from slavery. Likewise, every single writer of Scripture was Brown. The color of their skin does not matter intrinsically. In the Hebrew Bible, all of the characters were Brown—both the colonists and the colonized. But the entire New Testament was written by Brown colonized Afro-Asian peoples in the context of the White and western supremacist Roman Empire. Color here is not about hues of the rainbow. It is about geopolitical context and power. It matters”
― Angela N. Parker, If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority