I just knew God was going to heal my husband at this retreat in California, comfort him from his loss, revive him spiritually, and renew his love and commitment to me. Five days later, I picked him up from the airport and he left me that same night. It was only a few days before Valentines.
For a long time, I didn’t think that issues of race had anything to do with me. Instead, loving God and loving others meant believing in a colorblind rhetoric; if I couldn’t see a person’s skin color, I couldn’t therefore judge a person’s skin color, then I could somehow magically see straight to inside of their heart. If you want to engage in the conversation, here are eight concrete actions people of faith can take to address racial injustice.