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
