intersections: Video: "God is not a white man"

April 30, 2009

Video: "God is not a white man"

My friend Samir writes at the Faith House Manhattan blog, "Here is [a] video that is as comforting as it is challenging."

I agree. This music video at once packs a big theological punch but then leaves me a little flat. It's clear about what God is NOT, and this is a message that really needs to be heard in our culture right now. Everyone wants to coopt God for their cause.

But in the end this song is weak on what God is. To say that "God is love" is, to me, to say almost nothing at all. Does this mean that God doesn't care about anything? Is there justice associated with God's love?

Interestingly, the epistle for this coming weekend, which I'll be preaching from, is 1 John 3:16-24. Check it out.

This post also made me think of a post I read today by my friend Kori at her new blog, Adventures of a Lamb Seeker.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.... The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.