Humanity is rising and resisting the old story of separation, and embracing the new story of the collective, the desire to include everyone, because everyone is part of the divine family and there are no exceptions, and certainly no hierarchical form of governance based on something so seemingly random as the colour of one’s skin. But we are a long way off from realizing this dream, and there is much work to be done to break down old thinking, old prejudices, old fears, binary ways of being that like to divide and conquer.

Christianity itself is deeply compromised by racism, white washing a Mediterranean Jewish man into an Italian/Swedish composite that removed his naturally dark skin to present something somehow deemed more appealing. We have prostituted our faith in such deep and irretrievable ways, it is no wonder that Christendom has collapsed upon itself, and we are weakened. But to be humbled is the beginning of renewal.

So, let us be humbled. Let us be quieted, let us be still, and let us leave behind all that Christendom claimed as truth and retreat to that singular figure who represented all that we have come to disregard. Let us return to the bosom of our faith, which is neither doctrine nor tradition nor history nor memory but to the one with whom it all began.