Today, we white Christians whose church culture has sprung from the Bible Belt desperately need to re-examine our roots. We need to recognize the areas where we and our ancestors have agreed with injustice and unrighteousness. We need to expose the ways we continue to let something shallow and misleading rob us. We need to see where we have deadened our oak taproots to pursue kings of our own making.

Please, Father in heaven, give us eyes to see.

Quote is from chapter 3 of We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church, © 2011 Deborah P. Brunt.

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