Theology is often birthed in the struggle between divine promise and lived reality. Lately, I’ve been wrestling with this dissonance, caught between the certainty of God’s redemptive love and the relentless evidence of systemic injustice. The work of Black Liberation Theology offers a firm anchor: James Cone argues compellingly that God is definitively on the side of the oppressed (Cone, 2011). His seminal text, The Cross and the Lynching Tree, performs the profound historical work of tracing Black suffering alongside the crucified Christ, boldly proclaiming a truth many ancestors knew intuitively: God was with us in the fields, with us under the tree, with us in chains, and with us in survival (Cone, 2011).This truth of divine solidarity is not rejected; it is honored as the foundation of enduring faith. And yet, this assurance is currently being suffocated beneath another truth, a searing, inescapable reality, that refuses to be ignored.
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