America recently witnessed another display of the power of white supremacy in the failure to indict the murderers of Breonna Taylor. This summer of racial reckoning now trails into an election with numerous implications for racial justice.
And while all of these events have raised awareness of systemic racial injustice, and white Christians are more likely to admit that the U.S. has historically oppressed minorities, they’re less likely than one year ago to say that the country currently has a race problem. In fact, despite the number of whites participating in the mass protests this summer, fewer white Christians say they are motivated to address racial injustice. This information should lead scholars, theologians, and church leaders to ask: are churches making people more racist?
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