Wow. So much for "This is my command, that you love one another."

The chapter reminds me of some of the Psalms where the writer vents for a number of verses, but then comes back around to a right perspective at the very end.

Still, the rhetoric in the prayer is needlessly divisive for a time where we are looking at the possibility of another summer of rioting.

And by my count, she used the word "white" ten times, and "black" only three.  She seems to lack a positive vision of blackness that stands on its own apart from anything that white people are or aren't doing.

I didn't realize Sarah Bessey was the one who edited ("curated") this book until I saw her name in an article related to it. Then I saw the list of authors and it all made sense.

Sarah Bessey is another woman I've watched over the past several years going from someone asking questions to completely falling off the rails theologically. She was besties with Rachel Held Evans before Evans died. She was the one who told people on Twitter after Rachel died that if they didn't know Rachel to keep her name out of your mouth (or whatever the phrase is). She was furious if people said anything negative about Rachel.

Now I understand why it's a prayer book that features a prayer about hating white people. Even if it was meant with the best of intentions, it was really foolish to include something like that given the state of the world. 

Others who read the book have pointed out it's basically Critical Race Theory packaged up nicely for women who like something religious.

I cannot imagine going through life thinking that God wants you to hate yourself because you are white or hate other people because they are white. It's insane. {yellow}:serious:  

I saw this on "Not the Bee" yesterday and could not believe it. If it would have been hating ANYONE else, that would have never been published. 

@saraj23 There's a reason I have an entire thread devoted to articles and clips about the war on whites. It's very real and very dangerous. Someone is methodically trying to stoke a race war in this country. 

Think about when all the racial division started. It wasn't in 2016. It was 2008. Race relations have gotten steadily worse since Obama was elected. All of the good from the previous decades has been undermined in many ways. It wasn't an accident. It was deliberate. 

I also noticed Sarah Bessey's Twitter account is gone. According to a search I did, she still has a tweet showing up from March 22 so she was still active on Twitter a few weeks ago, promoting her new book.

I imagine she was flooded with attacks when this book hit the mainstream. I don't condone abusive behavior online, but the fact she thought that chapter was okay to publish tells you a bit about how out of touch with reality "progressive Christians" are.