Our Inadequacy Is an Invitation

Transformation asks for participation, not perfection

Arlésiennes (Mistral), by Paul Gauguin (1888)

I’m not qualified to facilitate any conversations on racial justice. 

I grew up in the white evangelical South, where I was taught to love the sinner, hate the sin, and I had exactly one Black friend. She was the sole Black student at my Christian school, where we met in eighth grade. I was heavily involved in…