The gift of the Holy Spirit allows us to passionately fight for the peace of Christ, a peace far greater than the one offered by oppressive authorities.
How should we answer calls to ‘defund the police’? To start, we must begin meeting urgent social needs instead of reflexively resorting to arrest and prosecution.
Although the Union defeated the Confederacy, the Civil War did not eliminate the Confederate worldview. The oligarchic ideology grew and spread to the American West.
It is comforting to imagine we are making steady progress in combating racism. But it’s also misleading: we have done far too little in the last fifty years.