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The hardest challenge I'm facing in light of SBC seminary presidents denying the compatibility of CRT and XNTY is processing w/ my SBC students.
Back in early Sept. I warned several of these students that this would happen, predicting much of what the presidents would say. /1
Back in early Sept. I warned several of these students that this would happen, predicting much of what the presidents would say. /1
These SBC Students: "No way, Dr. Cartagena! You're way off. Haven't you read Resolution 9? And don't you think SBC leaders will be just readers and presenters of CRT scholarship? May YOU, Dr. Cartagena, aren't being charitable."/2
I initially responded by pointing them to evidence that supported my position. But each time the students dismissed my evidence as "merely representing fringe groups in the SBC."/3
I decided to take a different approach: I'd discuss CRT scholarship w/them and make myself available when--not if--the SBC denunciation of CRT came.
Over the next two months, the students read primary CRT sources and were repeatedly impressed./4
Over the next two months, the students read primary CRT sources and were repeatedly impressed./4
And then the SBC seminary presidents dropped their denouncement of CRT.
Now my SBC students are reeling. They can tell these presidents (1) don't know what they're talking about and (2) are hiding behind coded jargon ("ideological framework")./5
Now my SBC students are reeling. They can tell these presidents (1) don't know what they're talking about and (2) are hiding behind coded jargon ("ideological framework")./5
One of my SBC students:
"Dr. Cartagena, those presidents are being unjust, and injustice is a sin. They need to repent, don't they? Still, how did this happen? And how did you see it coming when I didn't?"
History, patterns, structures, constituents, and discourses.../6
"Dr. Cartagena, those presidents are being unjust, and injustice is a sin. They need to repent, don't they? Still, how did this happen? And how did you see it coming when I didn't?"
History, patterns, structures, constituents, and discourses.../6
I wrote this in June.
"I’m appalled by the ever-increasing tendency within the Church to speak about CRT without having made an extended stay with the movement’s authors or texts./7
"I’m appalled by the ever-increasing tendency within the Church to speak about CRT without having made an extended stay with the movement’s authors or texts./7
"This lack of familiarity surfaces in disgraceful blog posts and essays published throughout Christian communions. We should be ashamed. Sadly, few will be, and even fewer will repent. Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy./8
And Spirit, help us love our CRT neighbors within and without the Church as we struggle to be salt and light in a racialized world."
Strikingly relevant, no?
Strikingly relevant, no?
