Marginal Christianity

"All Lives Matter" suggests we're all in this together facing a common problem. We're not. We have different problems that must be addressed in different ways. "All Lives Matter" suggests that we all get along in the world in our continuing inequitable ways, only that we stop killing each other. The latter is certainly desirable but the former is not. "All Lives Matter" is disingenuous because white lives have always mattered and no one questions that. Justice, real justice - political, social, and economic equity is the non-negotiable basis for any claim that "Black Lives Matter. Having parades together and singing "Kum Ba Yah," while important as a beginning point must be followed quickly be concrete steps in the right direction. Otherwise it's just so much hot air. Excuse me if this sounds negative. But I don't trust that white America will willingly cede power and resources to Black America. I hope that h...

-"Black Lives Matter" doesn't mean white lives do not. That's never in question in America so it seldom needs to be said. -Beyond the question of personal culpability and responsibility no one "caused" the shootings of the last few days. Racism did. It holds all of us, whether we personally hold racist views or not. It's an "us"-problem not a "them"-problem. -It's one of those "principalities and powers" thingies Paul talks about that should have functioned to keep and make h ... uman life human but rebelled against God and has distorted life in racist ways. But Christ has defeated these powers and in himself created a zone of freedom called the church which should display the new life we were created for. -politics, law, et. al will not solve racism (though their contributions will be important at various points). Only a demonstration of freedom from it in Christ will demonstrate its reality to the world. And...