“A 21st century call to embrace racial justice action, live in beloved community, and seek refreshing mystic moments as we emerge from a health pandemic and engage in a racial reckoning.”
Curtiss Paul DeYoung is President of the Minnesota Council of Churches, and has been the Pastor of the Park Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis. He is a white man who attended seminary at Howard University, which is historically Black. His wife Karen is Black, and so, naturally, are their children.
We are going to look at the high points in this book on making churches and society woke in various practical ways, but first, I have a beef with this book. It is way too Christian for me, not in a good way. Justice, mercy, charity, and all of the good stuff are in there, but they are overwhelmed by a relentless focus on Bible narratives of myths and fan fiction, both as alleged history and as alleged prophecy.
Ministry Mondays with Meg; The Risk of Being Woke, Episode 45 Curtiss DeYoung
But let’s put that aside, and talk about what DeYoung gets right.