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The Journey / 2016 Winter
Political Correctness Redefined Jason English Jason English and Reggie Hunt Reggie Hunt and I are friends. We are both fathers, husbands and pastors, and believe setting an example in the High Country is an important task for each of us. We aspire to do so by sharing our overflow of friendship.
We want each other’s church families to thrive. We are united in the advancement of the kingdom of God. We are having conversations with each other about what it means to advance the gospel in the High Country, and how we can reach more people in the High Country together. We aren’t interested in seeing who can win the false competition of appeasing consumers, and we aren’t sorry to disappoint those who think our aim is to give them exactly what they want. Instead, we are having conversations about bringing leadership to what we think the High Country needs. And we are committed to doing this together. We could spend thousands of dollars and rent out the football stadium as a way of demonstrating unity, but it is more authentic and more effective to simply be friends and examples of mutual respect.
include setting an example together in the area of racial reconciliation. One of my former seminary professors shared with me that he began his role in pastoral ministry in the 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement. He assumed that since he was young and he was white, that he couldn’t really do much. And then as an older man, he regretted his silence.
While our friendship is not centered around racial issues, if I am going to try to leverage the platform that God has given me in the High Country as a way of setting an example for the next generation, it’s time for our friendship to include setting an example together in the area of racial reconciliation.
While our friendship is not centered around racial issues, if I am going to try to leverage the platform that God has given me in the High Country as a way of setting an example for the next generation, it’s time for our friendship to
I have mostly kept quiet about the issue of white privilege and the history of racial brokenness in our country, especially as it relates to the oppression of the African American community. My main reasoning has been seemingly valid, but a bit of a weak excuse. My ancestors were European Jewish immigrants who came over to the United States well after the abolition of slavery in the United States, and were not part of any known oppression against African Americans. If anything, my ancestors were simply attempting to flee from their own persecutors.
I kept telling myself that since my ancestors were Jewish immigrants, I didn’t have any responsibility to help in racial reconciliation in America. But in reality, I
