Why you should care about the Second Baptist Houston lawsuit

We’ve seen a lot of hate over the last few days. Too much hate, too close to home. Sights and scenes that remind us of previous chapters in our nation’s history and all that still remains broken in our neighborhoods and in need of healing in our world.

Continually ruminating on our hurts and peeves creates a spiritual toxin which accumulates over time. The brain keeps sending and resending negative messages.

Decrying white nationalists is an ethical lay-up for which no white person should feel the slightest hint of self-congratulatory pride. To concretely repair racial injustices and facilitate socioeconomic advances for persons of color is the more difficult work to which we can commit ourselves.

What we read in these stories are perspectives of faith by people of faith who were every bit as fallible, flawed and finite in understanding as we are.