Who and what people pray for tells you a lot.

People will try to shame you into praying for people and systems that hurt you all the time and you know what I’ve learned to say?

“That’s not my ministry.”

How people use prayer is revealing. https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1324196902586515457

Also, please don’t tell me prayer isn’t political. Save it.

It can be a painful process (for a follower of Jesus) to come to grips with the blasphemy, racism, evilness of it all. It has helped me to frame this less as betrayal- and more as revelation.

The scales are off our eyes in a way like never before. How will we respond?

Pandemic or not, you know who your church leaders support based on their actions. Also, the people in the pews. No church is perfect- but the active support of this type of administration should tell you how deep the anti blackness runs at your house of worship.

Silence is complicity too. You can serve missions, homeless, youth, inner city, etc ministries + still support an anti black administration.

Denial will not save us.

I know it’s hard and feels like betrayal. But it’s really revelation. What will we do with it?

Asking you to support anti blackness in the church (or turn a blind eye to it) IS spiritual abuse.

It’s ok to leave and find safer spaces. They exist.

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