Comments on: Reverend (W)right? http://resurrectedheart.com/2008/04/30/reverend-wright/ Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:11:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Peg http://resurrectedheart.com/2008/04/30/reverend-wright/#comment-80 Peg Mon, 19 May 2008 12:07:41 +0000 http://resurrectedheart.wordpress.com/?p=43#comment-80 Hi Neil, Your visit to my blog inspired a return visit and I'm blessed by what I'm reading here. Great stuff! I had to comment on this post having just completed a diocese-required two-day anti-racism training session. Your post couldn't be more timely! We seminarians going through the training were struck by how out-of-touch with present-day realities people addressing this issue are. Case in point: These days many graduates of my school are refused ordination in our own denomination because we are too committed to Scripture to go along with the teachings-du-jour of the church's upper echelons. As a result, many of my classmates are being ordained by, and hired by, African bishops. This being the case, if we can't work with -- and indeed serve UNDER -- people of other races, we're in serious trouble! Meanwhile the folks leading our anti-racism training session have much the same mindset as Wright and were unwilling to even discuss our experiences of international interracial cooperation. I mentioned this to the pastor I work for yesterday, and he and I have come to the same conclusion: what we're seeing is members of the 60s generation who just aren't able to get over themselves. The Rev Wright -- along with the powers-that-be in the denominational hierarchies (many of whom are incredibly racist under their egalitarian veneer) -- are hopelessly stuck in the world they were raised in, a world that existed 40 years ago and has little resemblance to the place the rest of us live in now. Life is strange. Anyway, good post, and I'm glad you spoke up about it! Peg Hi Neil,

Your visit to my blog inspired a return visit and I’m blessed by what I’m reading here. Great stuff!

I had to comment on this post having just completed a diocese-required two-day anti-racism training session. Your post couldn’t be more timely! We seminarians going through the training were struck by how out-of-touch with present-day realities people addressing this issue are.

Case in point: These days many graduates of my school are refused ordination in our own denomination because we are too committed to Scripture to go along with the teachings-du-jour of the church’s upper echelons. As a result, many of my classmates are being ordained by, and hired by, African bishops. This being the case, if we can’t work with — and indeed serve UNDER — people of other races, we’re in serious trouble!

Meanwhile the folks leading our anti-racism training session have much the same mindset as Wright and were unwilling to even discuss our experiences of international interracial cooperation.

I mentioned this to the pastor I work for yesterday, and he and I have come to the same conclusion: what we’re seeing is members of the 60s generation who just aren’t able to get over themselves. The Rev Wright — along with the powers-that-be in the denominational hierarchies (many of whom are incredibly racist under their egalitarian veneer) — are hopelessly stuck in the world they were raised in, a world that existed 40 years ago and has little resemblance to the place the rest of us live in now.

Life is strange.

Anyway, good post, and I’m glad you spoke up about it!

Peg

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