As I was awakening to the willful racial self-blinding of white Christianity, I also became aware of another blindness that was—if anything—even more inexplicable (racists did at least have, as a desperate warrant for their convictions, those passages of the New Testament that urge the subservience of slaves to their masters). Then in the South, and widely elsewhere, many churches effectively ignored the plight of the poor, as they go on doing today—as I still do, socketed as I am in the deluxe surroundings and tended by warmhearted and reliable family and friends.
— “Outlaw” Christian writer, Reynolds Price, 1933–2011 | via Joanna Brooks
