rebelling against low expectations
“Do you think that Islam is a way to go to Heaven?” My sweet friend genuinely wanted to know what I thought. And my heart wrenched. I didn’t know what to say. I don’t believe Islam is the way to God, but I also wanted to be sensitive to my friend who had just lost her Muslim family member. She absolutely needed truth, but she needed it gently. I looked at my teammate, and she stepped in while I...
“Christianity is the white man’s religion,” said Malcolm X in his autobiography. This is a claim we often hear, but is it true? As a black person, I can understand why people might believe that Christianity is only for white people. They question, “How can you believe in the Bible if it was used to justify slavery? After all, black people were not Christian before the Transatlantic Slave Trade.”...
rebelling against low expectations
