“There’s just no denying that the very things for
which Israel was condemned by the prophets—gross income inequality,
mistreatment of immigrants and refugees, carelessness toward life, the
oppression of the poor and vulnerable, and the worship of money, sex, and
violence—remain potent, prevalent sins in our culture. These sins are embedded
in nearly every system of our society from education to law enforcement to
entertainment to religion. We are all culpable, all responsible for working for
change.
“Yet rather than confessing our sins, and rather
than dismantling the systems that perpetuate them, many Christians shrug it off
as part of an irrelevant past or spin out religious-sounding rhetoric about
peace and reconciliation without engaging in the hard work of repentance and
restitution.”—Christian blogger and author Rachel Held Evans (1981-2019), Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
(2018)
(Photo of
Rachel Held Evans taken by Dan Evans, ca. 2009–2010)
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