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A Black Christian

5/23/2018

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"When I was asked how I could possibly be a Christian given the history of Black people in America –the oppressive tyranny  and terror that was endorsed, supported, and upheld by the Church,  not to mention the current silence from Evangelicals regarding the same oppression –I would just shrug. Those two things, my Blackness and my Christianity, were never in conflict, because I’d allowed neither to touch me, let alone each other. They were two distinct and separate identities.
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When I read this it was as if the hot-handed History of my people, the one that I had avoided for so long, seared through sinew and skin; battled through bone and connective tissue, to lay claim to my heart. As I started to connect myself to the history of my people by reading their stories and sermons and spirituals as Dr. Cone lays out in his book, I came to see how the Gospel exists in America." 
- J. E. Johnson

​For more, read the rest of her article here. Check out her website: www.prettyforablackgirl.com 
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