Pastor Ben Boswell
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We have a wedding policy that has been described by our current chair of deacons as WASP-y. Our space as a church, very colonialist in style. And it needs some decolonization. We're going to be in a constant process of doing what I call a whiteness audit.
Where do we go from here? We go back to the beginning. We do what our ancestors have done. We get up and we walk toward the tomb because the fight's not over. It's just beginning. Amen.
When you've been the dominant culture for so long, the focus and attention on anyone who's been marginalized feels like a slight against you.
We just happen to be in a moment now in American history where that work is coming with a cost and people are getting tired and backing away from it.