Things I Have Learned
This is a placeholder for an upcoming blog post that is taking me a really long time to write. These are the core ideas of what I have learned in my first totally full semester of studying social work, and how that relates to my degree studying theology. Figured I'd share so it motivates me to finish the other one. 1. This country founded on the very principles of a privileged few and we can do so much better. It is fraught with inequality and our policies consistently represent selfishness and individualism. This is the opposite of everything I understand to be of a Christian ethic. 2. There a lot of people who want to change things and are willing to put in the hard work to do it. Some of those are definitely white, privileged, and Christian. 3. I'm still not totally sure how the church fits in this, but I'm working through that. I think the term "building relationships" as a solution is mostly an excuse to not deal with serious institutionally systemic is