03/22/2019
"Perhaps coming to a space of deconstruction does not mean we need to stay there. Deconstruction should, at some point, lead to reconstructing something that is better than the former. But to get there, people of color cannot be afraid to be angry and to ask questions. And white people must be willing to listen to that anger and hold it in solidarity, because our systems of oppression must be criticized, scrutinized, and, in many cases, taken down to create something new. That work cannot happen only because black, Indigenous, and people of color want it to happen, and we cannot be the only ones doing that work…
The question is: Do our experiences matter enough to make the white church angry enough to deconstruct alongside us? We are watching history unfold with the answer right now, and I hope that the church will be angry enough to listen for the sake of a better, reconstructed and restored future."
- Kaitlin Curtice, one of our speakers at the New Story Festival - 2019, coming right up.
