Rereading from the margins: unlearning and undoing our cultural mainstream church-ness

“Mainstream Christians at the center of the dominant culture, where social homogeneity reigns, need to unlearn and undo their social isolation from suffering and excluded communities through rereading at the margins. Only by repositioning their geographic horizons will churches begin to genuinely move toward a sense of belonging that does not dismiss or exclude racial others because of moral or legal qualifiers that only hold sway ‘from a worldly point of view’” (2 Cor 5:16).

~David P. Leong, Race & Place: How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation