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Here's a baffling truth: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church's 1974 report on race is more race-conscious AND antiracist than most of the recent evangelical discourse I've encountered.
https://www.opc.org/GA/race.html
Here's a baffling truth: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church's 1974 report on race is more race-conscious AND antiracist than most of the recent evangelical discourse I've encountered.
https://www.opc.org/GA/race.html
The OPC’s Report urges congregations “to emphasize in their ministries of preaching and discipline the obligations . . . to reject every form of racial discrimination and racism; to reject every attempt to maintain racial supremacy by military, economic or any other means; /2
"to reject the subtle forms of racial discrimination found in many countries today with respect to housing, employment, education, law enforcement, etc.”
These areas of obligation overlap with what scholars mean by “systemic racism.”
These areas of obligation overlap with what scholars mean by “systemic racism.”
Hence, the OPC's report urges discipleship that resists systemic racism.
Granted, you're not likely to hear this championed in many OPC congregations, Presbyteries, or Synods today (the recent New Horizons' publication surely doesn't). But still....
Granted, you're not likely to hear this championed in many OPC congregations, Presbyteries, or Synods today (the recent New Horizons' publication surely doesn't). But still....
