Woke to Church History

Lesson 8: Woke Christianity  and Reality

Lesson 8: Woke Christianity and Reality

I started this series by observing many of my friends were asking “What exactly is woke?” After about two months, I am willing to define it as awareness, a basic value in all the great world religions. They all claim to discern reality that is described as facing the truth, providing a healthy way of […]

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Lesson 7: Woke Christianity and the State

Lesson 7: Woke Christianity and the State

Last week, I suggested we are in a cultural revolution in which people turn to name-calling and invoking God when rational arguments fail. One reason I decided to write on Woke Christianity is I’m surprised that more people are not in an uproar over the misuse of God in this conflict. MAGA claims our nation […]

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Lesson  6: Woke Christianity and Cultural Revolution

Lesson 6: Woke Christianity and Cultural Revolution

Last week a dear Black American friend said she regretted not being able to use Woke any more. She was referring to politicians making it a term of derision but also all sorts of other causes including themselves in a part of black culture. Hearing her say this made me aware how involved the issue […]

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Lesson 5: Woke Christianity and Sex

Lesson 5: Woke Christianity and Sex

Last week I asked our Sunday School class what Christianity had to stay woke about in church history. In no time they came up with antisemitism, racism, and feminism. That last one has been front and center lately. I always start trying to understand what is going on by remembering what happened in the New […]

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Lesson 4: Woke Christianity and the Jews

Lesson 4: Woke Christianity and the Jews

Let’s see where we are so far. My goal is to provide some insight since woke is increasingly being used by politicians as a derogatory label for their opponents. It’s hard to nail down the term’s core meaning because they are most interested in its emotional connotations, especially those conveying disloyalty. I am suggesting the […]

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Lesson 3: Woke Christianity and Racism

Lesson 3: Woke Christianity and Racism

If religion is by nature “woke,” the spiritual wakes us up to what is hidden and sometimes upsetting about ourselves and our institutions. This applies even to the church. We can begin examining how this works with racism from which the term comes. Back in the 1930s, the Black American singer Lead Belly talked about […]

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Lesson 2: Religion is Woke

Lesson 2: Religion is Woke

All the great world religions could be said to be “woke” in the sense that awareness is a basic teaching. They all claim to discern reality. That might be described as facing the truth, providing a healthy way of life, bringing us into harmony with the grain of the universe, or doing God’s will. In […]

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