Having drawn the parallels between the humiliating brutal state-sanctioned death of Christ on the cross and the regular state-sanctioned lynchings of Black bodies, I'm personally convinced that there is no American who is able to embrace and teach Jesus like the Black American. Our experience as Black people provides a profound hermeneutic through which we talk about and experience the divine and ourselves. This alone is why the church needs us so urgently. They will never truly know Jesus until they know us.
Living on the Inside of the Edge by Christian Kimball. Common Consent Press. 2023. p. 262, 263. See also Student Spotlight - James C. Jones - Union Theological Seminary (utsnyc.edu) and Mormon church leader uses his faith to spread anti-racist principles : NPR
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