Posts Tagged ‘American History’
Dear Church, It’s Time to Take Responsibility for Your Politics
Dear Church, As a white kid growing up in rural Alabama, I was exposed to a lot of church and a lot of racism at an early age. I’ve attended churches that were overtly racist, where people felt free to make racist jokes and say that marrying someone of another race was Biblically forbidden. I’ve…
Read MoreDear Church, Let’s talk about some history
Dear Church, Let’s talk about some history. On December 31, 1862, New Year’s Eve, thousands of free and escaped slaves gathered in churches across the North (and some in the South) to anxiously await January 1. On Freedom’s Eve, they waited for freedom to come. Then-President Lincoln’s the Emancipation Proclamation was set to go in…
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