"To condemn a heresy is relatively easy. What is much more difficult is to *detect* the question it implies, and to give this question an adequate answer." -Schmemann

Seems applicable to current conversations around race theory.

If you want to criticize certain responses to racism as the biggest threat facing the church today, but you are virtually silent about, or else flatly deny, the actual problem of systemic racism, then don't be surprised if people who you think should listen simply don't.

Younger Christians like my students are just not going to be convinced to *stop* caring about social justice (nor should they). The question is what kind of answers are we giving them--or at least what framework are we giving them to think Christianly about possible answers.

Maybe we can start by recovering the older evangelical emphasis on proclamation *and* social action on a wide range of issues. Consider the Lausanne Covenant.

In my experience, people don’t want to defend CRT or whatever. They want to know why folks are so mad about *that*