Pastors, Are You Filling That Tension?

i want to say two things first, as i think that tension is perhaps less common in the black church tradition for all the reasons that have been articulated. What some people commonly call politics is, in fact, an argument about the good life that grows up out of whatever moral perspective people are bringing into the public square. That conversation has often been an existential threat for black folk. So we've not had the luxury of being able to say that over there is political, and we're just going to come over here do this thing,. abstracted from that. But when jesus says in matthew 28 18 20, i make disciples how baptizing, teaching them to obey everything that i