One Blood — Race, Reconciliation, and the Church
The American church is one of the most racially segregated institutions in the country. This plan examines what Scripture teaches about ethnicity, justice, reconciliation, and the church's complicity in racial sin — while honestly assessing contemporary frameworks like CRT.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said that 11 o'clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America. Decades later, that observation remains largely true. The church that proclaims reconciliation in Christ has struggled to practice it across racial lines — and has often been complicit in racial injustice.
This 10-day plan examines what Scripture teaches about the unity of humanity, the reality of oppression, the demand for justice, and the cost of reconciliation. It does not align neatly with any political faction. The Bible's vision of racial justice is more radical than the political right typically acknowledges and more theologically grounded than the political left typically allows. It challenges white Christians to reckon with history and challenges all Christians to test every cultural framework — including Critical Race Theory — against the word of God.
What to Expect
Each day pairs two key Scripture passages with reflections from Tim Keller, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Augustine, and Jonathan Edwards — thinkers who illuminate different aspects of the Bible's teaching on justice, sin, and reconciliation. The plan is designed to make everyone uncomfortable: those who think the church has nothing to repent of and those who think secular ideologies can do what only the gospel can accomplish.