I have no doubt that implicit racial biases live within me. To some extent, it seems unavoidable. What is not unavoidable, however, is whether or not I succumb to the role of one or many of the “white ally” tropes.
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If you’re like me, you may have grown up thinking white supremacy meant the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) and other extremist racist groups that took extreme action including acts of physical violence (e.g. lynchings) to ensure white people maintained power. While this is a subsection of white supremacy, it is an incomplete view of it.
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Imagine you’re playing Monopoly, and your objective is to go around the board 400 times. That’s a crazy long game of monopoly, right? But in this game of Monopoly, everyone else is given the typical starting money to play the game and you are not.
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As Christians, our calling and work must be rooted in biblical understandings, which shape what we do and how we do it. The following is a theological overview to guide our work with migrants and displaced peoples.
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How do we know when we’ve maximized our efforts (aside from completely burning out)? And how often do we put a burden of guilt on ourselves that comes from expecting godlike results from our own human efforts?
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…if in fact the church is meant to be a “sign” and “foretaste” of the coming eschatological kingdom of God in the here and now, and such a “sign” includes the restoration of our humanity via participation in the humanity of Christ (who alone is the “True Human”), then anthropology in many ways is a lynchpin within theology…
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