A Kingdom for the Dispossessed

[Justin Phillips]

Abstract:

For much of our national history white, southern, Protestant evangelicals have held tremendous power, both civic and cultural, throughout their region in the U.S. That constituency’s hold on that power is loosening however, due to many factors, not the least of which is the changing racial and ethnic makeup of the nation. The year 2040 has been pinpointed as a watershed year for such change, as whites are projected to no longer be the majority racial group. I propose that the next quarter century is a crucial time for the Church – particularly its white, southern evangelicals – to reconsider notions of hospitality, power, and identity. Doing so will prepare future generations to prepare for the Kingdom of God, while not clinging to visions of past, now crumbling, kingdoms.

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