In today's issue of The Dartmouth there is an article which announces a collaboration between the departments of Geography and African American Studies for a course that looks at #BlackLivesMatter. The lede for the story says:
The geography department and African and African-American studies program are introducing a new course for the upcoming spring term called "10 Weeks, 10 Professors: #BlackLivesMatter," dedicated to considering race, structural inequality and violence in both a historical and modern context.
This got me to thinking about churches.
Since theology (and theology in action) is supposed to be the church's business, how many liberal churches (UU or otherwise) are talking about how theology has been used/abused when it comes to feelings about race, structural inequality, and violence? [yes, I know about the repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery and the Papal Bull it comes from, but be honest, most people in pews or out of them still have no idea what that is]
How many liberal churches were only talking about race on MLK weekend (and maybe once during Black History Month) before Ferguson?
How many liberal churches are talking about liberation theology (black, womanist, mujerista, Asian-Pacific Islander, Indigenous/Aboriginal, or otherwise)?
So while we are working for change in the wider community/world, the real question becomes how much working for change are we engaging in in our religious communities.
