THE LEFT BEHIND: WHY ARE WHITE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS SO RACIST?
BY DANIEL SCHULTZ AUGUST 5, 2020
[W]e white Christians have not just been complacent or complicit; rather, as the nation’s dominant cultural power, we have constructed and sustained a project of perpetuating white supremacy that has framed the entire American story. The legacy of this unholy union still lives in the DNA of white Christianity today — and not just among white evangelical Protestants in the South, but also among white mainline Protestants in the Midwest and white Catholics in the Northeast.
Robert Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity.
So can white Christian America be saved? I’m afraid I have to answer that with a question of my own: it depends. Why do you want to save it?
If the point is that the white church is better than its sins of racism, and is worth saving in itself, the answer is probably “no.” It’s up to God, of course, but careful study and prayer and discernment simply aren’t going to change enough hearts and minds to bring the white church back to the kind of moral authority it used to have.