In the spring of 2021, I was invited by the editor of Reflections, Ray Waddle, to respond to their spring prompt with children in mind. The question for the issue was: Can faith repair the world? My response is that despite all the harm that Christianity has done and is doing still, God is always calling us as Christians into the struggle against evil, into the work of the Kingdom.
In my article, I list five ways in which children and children’s programs in particular can start to bring young people into the work against racism.
“So how can we draw children into a healing way of life, a way full of delights—the healing, fighting, liberating way of God? I have a few small thoughts from my small experience. I will focus on the evil of racism, and speak specifically about white well-off children, with majority-white Episcopal churches here in the Northeast in mind. And I write these suggestions for white pastors, priests, and lay staff. (The concepts may apply for others, but the work of applying them will come with different burdens that I won’t address here.)” Read the rest of the article here.
