In the end, “White Too Long” seems to present a stark choice: Hold onto white Christianity or hold onto Jesus. White Christians have to face the possibility that everything they have learned about how to practice their faith has been designed to explicitly or implicitly reinforce a racist structure. The reviewer is the black Evangelical pastor Jemar Tisby, in which Tisby says: Trueman quotes a New York Times review of the book White Too Long, about the white church and racism. If you oppose CRT’s plan for eradicating racism, then you are on the side of the racists, plainly. This, says Trueman, is a very modern way of approaching the problem of evil. If a problem persists, then it must be because somebody doesn’t want it to be solved, or are preventing it from being solved by holding to old ways of thinking. Trueman - whose new book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self is magisterial on these matters - explains that CRT depends on the premise, common in modern thinking, that all problems can be solved with the right application of intelligence and willpower. In First Things, Carl Trueman writes a calm evisceration of CRT and its march through Evangelical institutions. While MAGA/QAnon ideology is ravaging the Evangelical churches from one side, Critical Race Theory is ravaging it from the other.
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