Tag: Lisa Sharon Harper

Liberating Evangelicalism

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HarperFrom the Twitter account of Lisa Sharon Harper, Founder and President of Freedom Road and Senior Fellow at Auburn Seminary. It was posted on March 18, 2019.

To all the people, designated White by colonizing nations, who are becoming disillusion by your evangelical or Christian faith: When you walk away from Jesus you are not #woke. You are operating out of the white supremacy you say you abhor. #LiberatingEvangelicalism

When you walk away from Jesus and Christian faith to be “woke” you are walking away from a faith that sprang from brown, indigenous, colonized people. You’re walking away from faith born on the underside of empire in the context of oppressed peoples. #LiberatingEvangelicalism Continue reading “Liberating Evangelicalism” →

Libations for Emmett Till

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tillPilgrimage Reflections: The Gospel and the Politics of Race

By Lisa Sharon Harper. Re-posted from Freedom Road.

White gravel crunched under our feet. Body weight shifted to stabilize the self while beholding evidence of history that destabilized the world. Continue reading “Libations for Emmett Till” →