Eighty-eight days ago in Minnesota, George Floyd was apparently killed by police officer Derek Chauvin. And eighteen days afterward on June 12, a black man named Max Mason was posthumously pardoned for a crime he didn’t commit. Max Mason didn’t receive a pardon because of what happened to George Floyd eighteen days earlier in Minnesota….
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It might not look like it, but the most worn-out book in my personal library is the most precious thing I own. That book is the Student’s Life Application Bible, and it’s the first thing I purchased after I became a Christian fourteen years ago around this time in August 2006. The ESV Study Bible…
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One of the surest ways to turn some friends into enemies is to tell them the truth about racism and social justice. When I created this blog five years ago to help many of my friends think more biblically about racism and social justice, I didn’t think it would cost me their friendship. I never…
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Many young Christians didn’t learn how to understand justice from Scripture. So in college, they learned how to understand justice from culture. And now, they think injustice is justice. And they interpret Scripture through culture, not culture through Scripture. That’s why many professing Christians are more committed to Black Lives Matter than Biblical theology. But…
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They were made slaves by their neighbours before they were made slaves by strangers. They were hated by their cousins before they were hated for their colour. They were outcasts and oppressed in their Old World before they suffered over the sea—before they suffered under the sun in a New World. They were captives in…
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My white girlfriend recently said to me: “Sam, thank you for never making me feel bad about being white.” She said that because in 2020 my skin colour isn’t the most controversial pigment in our relationship—her skin colour is. Our culture in 2020 doesn’t tell me to feel guilty about my skin colour. Our culture…
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When I was a boy in Ghana, I once had a massive nail pierce through my foot, and I suffered through a makeshift surgery by my mom without anaesthesia. And that was significantly more enjoyable than reading this book. It’s astonishingly bad. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism…
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Yesterday, the University of Pennsylvania announced they are removing George Whitefield’s statue from campus because of his racist words and his role in advocating for and participating in slavery. The University said: “Honoring him with a statue on our campus is inconsistent with our University’s core values, which guide us in becoming an ever more…
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This year marks 5 years since I created SlowToWrite.com. That’s 5 years since I committed to blogging for you and Christ. That’s 5 years since I made a vow to become quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger—slow to write. And over the last 5 years, my blog has received significant attention from…
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I was a five-minute walk from home when a police car abruptly stopped beside me. Then the police officers rolled down the window and yelled, “stop!” But I stopped walking before they demanded me to. I was afraid—I was too afraid to move. Police cars weren’t uncommon in my neighbourhood. I was twenty years old…
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