Too often we read the Bible in ways that make us look good. Too often we read history from the view of the winners.

Erna Kim Hackkett observes that the Bible is focused on the community of all the people. It is not simply “Jesus loves me,” but the corollary, “Jesus loves us.”

When we focus our faith solely on our individual relationship with God, we miss Jesus’s commandment to love one another; we ignore that being in right relationship with God requires us to be in right relationship with our neighbor.

Erna Kim Hackett clearly articulates some of the ways in which bad theology and bad history are used to maintain a system of injustice built on the backs of people of color.

Read Erna Kim Hackett’s full article here:

https://www.inheritancemag.com/stories/why-i-stopped-talking-about-racial-reconciliation-and-started-talking-about-white-supremacy

Thanks to Jim Gussen for sharing the article.