"Certain evangelical Christians are the worst at this. That desire to exonerate themselves of all things racial injustice, it tempts them to deny all things that are racist... they become indifferent to the black body."

@ThabitiAnyabwil using Ta-Nehisi Coates for an illustration

Application of Gen. 4:13-14: Reparations. "We can't have the ones who perpetrate the crime saying, 'That's too much, how about this? That's too much.' No no no, they don't get to set those terms. We don't want anything in our heart that looks like a response like Cain's."

"First thing God does is he speaks to strike Abel's [sic] conscience... our protest today must be aimed at arousing the conscience of a morally asleep country... [that] people who did not believe certain things to be wrong come to see them as wrong... and accept accountability."

Is... is he really using Romans 1:28-32 to talk about police brutality?

"White evangelicalism has twisted the scriptures in the most wicked way to destroy black lives and the black body... our blood flows in the street because of teaching like this that has wormed its way into the fabric and the habits of the culture."

"Fragile white people can't bear to have racism pointed out... We are where we are because this country and white evangelical Christians have twisted the theology of the body so that they can own black bodies."

To his credit, this is a good application. This acct is not just for dunking!

TA has slightly cleaned up the thoughts from his famous "solidarity" thread as he delivers them from the pulpit. Adds the caveat: "We never denigrate our Christian unity."

"I can't require this, we wish we could, but we're gonna strongly encourage it, that all of us as a membership work through material like Latasha Morrison's 'Be the Bridge.'"

Bonus clip: The Ta-Nehisi Coates reading at the start of this thread isn't the sermon's first!

"I don't agree with his recommendations... but he sees with searing clarity the problem itself."

Source video: "Black Body, Shed Blood and Justice" premiered June 7, 2020