We can’t look to those voices that are so intertwined with the political Right Wing agenda, it’s hard to tell them apart.
HARD TRUTHS Remembering George Floyd: Where's the Social Gospel? “We cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life” . Pope Francis on the killing of George Floyd I grew up during the 1970s in evangelical churches. We lived in the shadow of the turbulent 60s, a time when like the response to George Floyd’s death, former colonized peoples pushed against the knees of their oppressors on their necks. Angola. Jamaica. Zimbabwe. Cuba. Albania. Kenya. Many Latin American countries. Here in North America Watts and Harlem burned, triggering the by now familiar response to the revolutionary call of Black Power. Maybe it was the urgency of the times. Or maybe it was because evangelicals were ‘heavenly minded...