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Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the United States\u00a0<\/em>is written by Lenny Duncan, a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Duncan was a \u201cfree-agent Christian\u201d until he met the ELCA through an open communion table. This revolutionary symbol of grace and welcome later led him to seminary and now guides his ministry at Jehu\u2019s Table in Brooklyn, NY.<\/p>\n

Pastor Ingrid Arneson Rasmussen and Pastor Angela\u00a0Khabeb\u00a0serve together at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, a congregation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The following is the conversation they shared after reading\u00a0Dear Church<\/em>, an epistle written to the denomination in which they are both ordained.<\/p>\n

Ingrid: This book reinforced what has become clearer to me since you and I began serving together as pastors\u2014that is, the two of us live by two different sets of rules in the ELCA. My name is Ingrid Arneson Rasmussen. I have blonde hair and blue eyes. I have never been asked how long I\u2019ve been a Lutheran.<\/p>\n

Angela: My name is Angela\u00a0Khabeb, and I\u2019m asked to establish my Lutheran pedigree with such frequency that I\u2019m surprised when it\u00a0doesn\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0happen. Certainly, I\u2019m no stranger to double standards. As an African American woman, I learned from an early age that the world treats different people differently and serving in the whitest denomination in the United States has provided me with yet another list of prejudgments to encounter.<\/p>\n

Ingrid: Yes, I\u2019ve witnessed what Duncan calls \u201ca thousand cuts\u201d\u2014those\u00a0microagressions\u00a0that, more often than not, go unchecked in Lutheran circles because they are so widely accepted by the dominant culture. You and I bring very different experiences to this book. Social location matters.<\/p>\n

Angela: You can say that again. Duncan\u2019s book is an unflinchingly honest call to dismantle white supremacy in the church. While reading it, I found myself revisiting my own trauma. I remembered how I languished for nearly two years without a first call. I remember surviving death threats and even an attempt on my family\u2019s life at our first call. Duncan\u2019s writings gripped me on a deeply personal level. There were times I didn\u2019t think I would make it to the end of the book. It was kind of like the lyrics from that Roberta Flack song, \u201cHe was strumming my pain…singing my life with his words. Killing me softly.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0I wasn\u2019t quite prepared for the experience. I\u2019m glad I stayed the course.<\/p>\n

Ingrid:\u00a0[Silence.]\u00a0<\/em>This book reveals the gravity of the situation in the church.<\/p>\n

Angela: Yes it does.<\/p>\n

Ingrid: Duncan makes it clear that he thinks that we\u2019re all players in the situation. We\u2019re all part of the systems that perpetuate racism. It\u2019s easy for predominantly white faith communities to stall out in conversations about race when people claim that they, themselves, aren\u2019t racists. But what Duncan helps to clarify is that white supremacy doesn\u2019t rely on active racists to function. We\u2019re all caught up; we\u2019re all complicit. And for those of us who identify as white, we need to live with the discomfort of that reality.<\/p>\n

Angela: I was glad that Duncan stressed this reality.\u00a0Clearly, we are all tangled together in these systematic, generational, racist structures. I have no argument there; however, I had a visceral reaction when I read that \u201cwe…have crucified black and brown bodies under the guise of creating a civil society.\u201d I am struggling to step into this \u201cwe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ingrid: Let\u2019s ask Duncan to talk more about what he means by \u201cwe.\u201d Until then, what do\u00a0we<\/em>\u00a0do now that we\u2019ve read this book? I wonder if it\u2019s time for us to reclaim an apocalyptic imagination\u2014not the doomsday, soothsaying kind of apocalyptic theology that dominates popular culture, but the apocalyptic theology that allows us to look at this moment in history and to call out the forces\u2014like white nationalism and toxic masculinity\u2014that defy God. In Martin Luther\u2019s words, it\u2019s time for us to \u201ccall a thing what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Angela: That\u2019s easy (or at least\u00a0easier<\/em>) for you to say. As a white woman, you are afforded\u00a0just enough<\/em>\u00a0privilege to speak truth to and with power and be praised. I speak truth to and with power, and I wonder if I\u2019ll still have a job. In fact, I found myself wondering aloud in the margins of the book how many death threats Duncan has received by just mentioning reparations. I admire his bravery.<\/p>\n

Ingrid: Me, too. I kept thinking that this book isn\u2019t meant to be read alone.<\/p>\n

Angela: Great point! I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s meant to be read\u00a0only<\/em>\u00a0alone or\u00a0only<\/em>\u00a0once. It\u2019s powerful, raw, and forthright. I\u2019m grateful that I had a chance to read it before our congregation engages it as our Advent book study this year.\u00a0Reading it first allowed me the opportunity to first look at \u201cthe beam in my own eye\u201d so to speak, to examine my own experiences of pain and despair.<\/p>\n

Ingrid: For me, the despair arises out of the complexity of the brokenness and the fear that individual actions won\u2019t be able to effect change in the well-oiled machines of white supremacy, patriarchy, and heteronormativity. The intersectionality of oppression can feel overwhelming.<\/p>\n

Angela: So true. I felt myself choosing between the pain in the pages of the book and the pain in my life. It was, at times, daunting to carry both. I\u2019m glad I continued. Duncan\u00a0encourages those feeling overwhelmed by decades in the struggle when he writes, saying, \u201cLet the rest of us pick up the baton for a while, and you can rest in the Sabbath you have earned.\u201d Dismantling white supremacy is a necessary work, a dangerous work. Truly the church, in particular, the ELCA, is called for such a time as this.<\/p>\n

Ingrid: Yes, Duncan insists that \u201cwe are the ones we have been waiting for.\u201d Everyone who reads this book, whether they think of themselves as an agent of change or not, hears the call to participate in the revolutionary work that Jesus embodied.\u00a0Dear Church<\/em>\u00a0invites our action in the vision that God is bringing to birth–a vision that is surprising, disruptive, loving, and true.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Angela\u00a0Khabeb\u00a0and Ingrid Rasmussen<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0serve together as pastors at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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