Complicit or Courageous?

Jemar Tisby, in The Color of Compromise, speaks his theme into challenge:

Progress is possible, but we must learn to discern the difference between complicit Christianity and courageous Christianity.

Complicit Christianity forfeits its moral authority by devaluing the image of God in people of color. Like a ship that has a cracked hull and is taking on water, Christianity has run aground on the rocks of racism and threatens to capsize—it has lost its integrity.

By contrast, courageous Christianity embraces racial and ethnic diversity. It stands against any person, policy, or practice that would dim the glory of God reflected in the life of human beings from every tribe and tongue.

These words are a call to abandon complicit Christianity and move toward courageous Christianity.