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✝️ A Message to the Faith Community

Can faith communities — especially white congregations — be one body in truth, crossing color lines and standing in alignment with the Creator’s justice?

Can they speak up, take action, and push America to begin atonement for slavery — not just as a political issue, but as a moral responsibility and the first step toward true healing?

Genesis 15:13–14 foretold the judgment that follows after oppression. So what will we do now? Will we soften our hearts and choose obedience — or harden them and invite prophecy?

The Bible speaks clearly on redress for wrongdoing.

So how long can the Church stay silent on slavery’s legacy — the murder, rape, forced labor, and stolen wealth — while still claiming moral leadership?

How long will descendants of the enslavers benefit from the stolen while the descendants of the enslaved continue to suffer under systems of injustice, mass incarceration, economic exclusion, and erasure?

Faith groups must choose:
Do you stand in truth, or in tradition that protects power and legacy wealth built from harm?

Will you call on the government to finally acknowledge and repair?
Or will silence serve as complicity, again?

This is a prophetic moment.
Faith institutions can delay judgment — or help usher in healing.
You were not called to comfort, but to courage.

It’s time to say:
“We will no longer live off stolen blessings. We choose justice. We choose repair.”

Faith congregants both white and black are beginning to take the moral high ground speaking out in support of their sisters and brothers of the faith community who are descendants of slaves in the US owed reparations redress and compensatory payments.

OUR STORY-
Will be determined by our actions or inactions to make right the wrong of this nations past. The question is what next story do we want told as our history, will it be a collective story of the American people of faith descendants on both sides of their ancestors past, who did not try to erase the past but told the truth about slavery and its harms and did something about it for future generations of people.

We are choosing our future stories of American history as it unfolds today in our actions.

Will the story told be that of how faith communities came together and choose to lead in moral actions to begin the healing of the US through atonement and racial conciliatory actions to close the wounds and open gaps still oozing from slavery, or will it be told of how we left it in the laps of our children to deal with the anger the pain, the ego, the lies and the shame of another generation with more of the same separations in their futures?