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Christianity Can Be Built Around Isolating Ourselves From Evildoers And Sinners, Creating A Community Of Religious Piety And Moral Purity. That’s The Christianity I Grew Up With. Christianity Can Also Be Built Around Joining With The Broken Sinners And Evildoers Of Our World Crying Out To God, Groaning For Grace. That’s The Christianity I Have Fallen In Love With.

When We Really Began Executions Rather Than Lynchings, Black Folks Were 22% Of Our Population In 1950, For Instance, But They Were 75% Of The Executions. Now, African-americans Are 13% Of The Population, But They're Still Almost Half Of Death Row, And Over A Third Of The Executions. 34% Of The Executions Are Black Folks. So, Like, I Mean, Things Like The Race Of The Victim Is One Of The Biggest Determinants Of Who Gets Executed.

We Can Also Cling To The Treasures Of Our Faith And Get Rid Of The Things That Are Cluttering That. It Is A Time We Are Seeing Some Trending Away From The Things That Were Cluttering Our Faith.

We're Remembering Both The Good And The Bad In Our History Together In This World. This Isn't An Attempt To Make People Feel Bad Every Morning And To Force Them To Go Stick Their Fingers In A Wall Socket. We Chose These Things We Included As A Way To Point People Toward The Possibility Of Transformation Even While Remembering The Great Pain We Have Experienced As Humanity.

No One Has Seen God, But As We Love One Another, God Lives In Us.