Racism, Exclusion, & Embrace / Miroslav Volf

Miroslav Volf responds to the recent killing of unarmed black men, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd. Exclusion takes many forms, but  is marked by both a pursuit of false purity and a failure to see the other as fully human. 

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Show Notes

• A brief response to the recent killings of unarmed black men, Ahmad Arbery and George Floyd.
• Exclusion’s many forms are all a pursuit of false purity and failure to see another’s humanity.
• Ahmad Aubrey and George Floyd’s deaths embody what happens when we close ourselves off to others.
• Community & porous identities.
• A metaphor of embrace
• If we only insist on our own identities, rights, and goods, violence will follow.
• Creating a new cultural milieu.
• Exclusion operating as dehumanization
• A Christian response
• Seeing others with the eyes of Christ