William Lindsey Mar 13

Jemar Tisby notes the willingness of many white Christians to welcome a progressive, prophetic form of Christianity when someone like James Talarico preaches it — when that progressive, prophetic Christianity has been there all the time, for a very long time, in the Black church. He concludes,

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https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/why-white-christians-love-james-talarico

Why White Christians Love James Talarico

And what they're missing

Footnotes by Jemar Tisby
Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

"The problem isn’t that people are finally hearing a Christian politician talk about justice. The problem is that many of them had to hear it from a white man before they recognized it as Christianity."

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Show threadgbsillsMar 13
@wdlindsy This is all true, but he still seems to be a pretty decent guy. The alternatives... not so much.
Show threadoldguycrustyMar 13

@wdlindsy

ugh. This is so on point.

old atheist here. Now Godless heathen.
Raised in white evangelicalism...