{"id":1286,"date":"2020-07-22T22:03:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/messenger\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2020-08-27T21:33:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T21:33:31","slug":"racial-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/uncategorized\/racial-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“If the precipitation of racial crisis by Negro leaders and communities across this land of ours has done nothing else, it has given ‘white’ churches and communities an ‘excuse’ to confess their sins and to redeem themselves with resolute and courageous action. The question of the moment is whether this assembly convened under the deepening shadows of racial conflict and discord, of brokenness and alienation, can effect within its life a reasonable measure of reconciliation. Indeed, the hour is late, but not too late. The storm is upon us, but Christ still has the power to calm the raging winds and the troubled sea-if only we would put our trust in him.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“God forbid that this Conference, amidst the urgency of the hour, should simply pass another resolution. May we stand in His strength until he has wrought in us his holy will.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gospel Messenger<\/em>, July 27, 1963. Thomas Wilson made this statement<\/a> during the discussion of the statement “The Time ls Now”, at the 1963 Annual Conference. Tom is an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren and was the pastor of a Brethren congregation at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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” the failure of Brethren to stand in solidarity with people of color\u2014both in our own communities and beyond\u2014does not feel to me like helping, but rather like denying the experiences of many of us. And it seems to invalidate our ‘simply, peacefully, and together’ motto that once seemed so simple.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Messenger<\/em> special report, “Reflections on Race<\/a>,” January\/February 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Articles from 2016<\/h2>\n\n\n\n