by Frank McPherson Tuesday, July 19, 2016

In response to Jason Micheli's blog post titled "What's Happening to America". 

Our theology is complicit in this in teaching sin as a “thing” of which we can get rid of, wash away, etc. While there are debates about the theology of Original Sin, I think there ought not be debate about the origin of sin. If the origin of sin is the accepting of ourselves as apart from God, and consequently not seeing God in everyone around us (let alone within ourselves), then we move from us to you and I, or seeing the world as me and others. The word we have for this today is racism, and it should be no surprise that it persists and will continue to persist as long as we continue to see ourselves and everyone around us as apart from each other and apart from God.