Episode 58: Why Talk About Race?
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Since meeting at a class on the history of race in the US hosted by Little Lights Urban Ministries in Washington, DC, Keesha Ceran and Garrett Losty have been leading workshops together on having hard conversations about race for a number of other churches and organizations. This Tuesday, they join us at the Center for Christian Civics to help us learn how to have these conversations—and they stopped by the podcast to share why this is even a conversation worth having!
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Prayer
Heavenly Father,
As much as we want to live in a country where there is no Jew or Greek, no black or white, no ignorance or deception or racism, we don’t.
Teach us to accept and appreciate the things you have done that the world would have us believe we have to ignore. And teach us to repent of the things that fall short of your calling that the world would have us believe are actually signs of virtue.
Where we might not even know we have hearts of stone, give us hearts of flesh. We want to honor your image in other people, even when those other people are reflecting your image in ways that are strange to us. We want to turn away from sin in ourselves, even when that sin is infecting an idea or a commitment that was meant to be noble, and honorable and good.
And most of all, we want to live lives now that will help other people better understand what it will look like when your kingdom comes.
Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Your word tells us that when that kingdom comes, when your will is finally perfectly done, every tribe and tongue will praise your name.
Don’t let us get so caught up in the idea that every tribe and tongue will still exist, that we forget that those tribes will be living in harmony with one another and singing in concert with one another.
And don’t let us get so caught up in the idea that they’ll all be praising the same thing that we forget that they are still going to be distinct tribes with distinct languages.
We want so badly for it to be one way or the other: We’re either all the same, or we shouldn’t have to bother with each other.
Bend our stiff necks, and teach us to teach one another a better way.
In Jesus’ name we pray,
Amen.