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description: White people should be less white. Whiteness is white supremacy. Silence is violence. You can never overcome your racism. Youve heard these baffling viewsbut do you know where they come from? The wokeness that emerged from the social unrest of 2020 has swept through schools businesses and even sports. Driven by the radical ideologies of Critical Race Theory and intersectionality it has destabilized public and private lifeincluding the Church. Many evangelicals have joined the crusade. Gripped by a desire for justice and rightly grieved by past evils like slavery many pastors are preaching the woke gospelidentifying whiteness (an imaginary concept) with white supremacy calling bewildered Christians to repent of their supposed guilt for the sins of past generations. But as theologian Owen Strachan makes clear this is not true justice nor is it true Christianity. While wokeness employs biblical vocabulary and concepts it is an alternative religion far from Christianity in both its methods and its fruit. A potent blend of racism paganism and grievance wokeness encourages partiality and undermines the unifying work of the Holy Spirit. It is not simply not the Gospel; it is anti-Gospel. As Strachan traces the origins of wokeness lays out its premises and follows them to their logical conclusions the contrast of that false faith with the Word of God stands out unmistakably. This succinct but groundbreaking work reveals that wokeness like other heresies is not really new. Nor is the antidote: Christ crucified for us.
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title: Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
publisher: Salem Books