Richard Rohr talks about current times of division, intolerance, political strife and deep racism.
Like much of our nation, I’ve been doing substantial soul-searching to seek understanding about my own actions, beliefs, and behaviors, as well as the systemic patterns that write collective actions, beliefs, and behaviors in quite large letters across our society.
What I’m coming to understand through this reflection is startling, and might surely seem like a non-sequitur. But here it is:
The widespread Christian failure to understand and experience God as Trinity has provided a breeding ground for both implicit and explicit racism.
Read this compelling article from Sojourners, by the pioneering Franciscan Fr. Richard Rohr.
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