Fantastic Article about CRT “Good News” from a Texas Baptist

I just had to post this in full.

From the June 14, 2021, Baptist News Global:

Why Critical Race Theory Could Be Good News for “Nice White People”

Craig Nash

A bedrock theological concept of my formation as a white American evangelical was the idea, best articulated by Paul in Romans 14-20, that there is a war going on within all of us between those things that are good and that we want to embrace but don’t, and those things that aren’t good that we don’t want to embrace, but always seem to find a way to embrace. Or, to borrow words from a more recent evangelical prophet, Rich Mullins, in his song Hold Me Jesus: “Surrender don’t come natural to me. I’d rather fight you for something I don’t really want than to take what you give that I need.”

I’ve reflected on this concept…