"I continue to be nurtured by my ministerial colleagues, but when I go into many of our congregations, at a cultural level, it often feels like all the healthy juices in my body are being drained out of me.
What continues to challenge my personal faith is wondering whether I will ever see the day when our religious movement moves beyond its Eurocentric norms. We would probably all agree that a life of faith cannot be nurtured in the face of endemic evil. But it's more difficult to see that it is also impossible for many people from non-European heritage to be nurtured by an upper middle class Euro-centric norm blessed by self-satisfaction.
Someday, I'm going to update W.E.B. DuBois' book, "The Ways of White Folks," that will focus on the cost of Euro-centrism and of cultural indifference in a multicultural society."
From the Reverend Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley
address to the Birmingham Minister's Convocation 2002
A DRUUM meeting in San Diego, California
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