Some thoughts

Some thoughts:

(1) Protest is the voice. Action is the solution.

African-American is a race. Policeman is a career. Neither of these is intrinsically good or bad. They are just a race and a career. Yet we get into trouble when we live and act based on stereotypes attached African-American and policemen.

The real issue is character. We should call out bad character whenever we see it and honor good character whenever we see it.

(2) The protest marches and the subsequent looting bring complex and tangled issues to the forefront. Among them are two issues that are intertwined and need much consideration: privilege and entitlement. They both need to be taken out of their accepted contexts and thoroughly rethought in the light of these protests.

(3) Why did it take such global rage to call attention to problems that have been right under our noses for so long? That in itself is a problem.

(4) Donald Trump stands in front of a church he never attends holding a Bible. He doesn’t understand that every New Testament page in that Bible indicts his actions in the world: greed, envy, pride, sloth, lust—the whole package.

My understanding is that EvangelicalChristians are intensely committed to living the words of Christ. How then could any Evangelical Christian look at this Bible thumping man and not cringe in disgust.

(5) When these protests in the streets of America are over, success will be measured in the accumulation of transformative day-to-day acts, small and large--as we can each manage--that make change lasting.

(6) Now we are calling for intense scrutiny of bad behavior. That’s fair. But we must also call for intense scrutiny of good behavior. That’s where character, good solutions and integrity are.