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“The most serious problem with the way today’s conversation about race is . . . It is not happening.”
Leave it to the Presbyterians to help us Baptists think more clearly about what feels like a dead-horse debate. https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/02/evangelicals-and-race-theory
Leave it to the Presbyterians to help us Baptists think more clearly about what feels like a dead-horse debate. https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/02/evangelicals-and-race-theory
Carl Trueman’s treatment of the CRT debate in the SBC and evangelicalism is a welcome criticism that helps us understand the appeal of CRT categories and transcend some of the rock hurling.
We have often acted in bad faith toward one another so much on this topic because we have not stopped to understand the motivations of those who wrote and endorsed Res. 9 and those who vehemently opposed it.
I honestly believe the framers of Resolution 9 would agree with what Trueman writes here. Vocal opponents of the resolution have embraced this article as well.
Both sides reject the worldview usually associated with CRT and see some of its key ideas as disastrous for the Christian faith. But they do disagree about its merits or lack thereof.
What Trueman invites us to have is a genuine two-sided dialogue on the topic that doesn’t begin with the presumption of the “are you with me or against me” shibboleth.
