Finding Ourselves “Inside” the White Evangelical Christian Story: Response to Bland and Hoard

Abstract

ABSTRACT This discussion suggests that the white evangelical Christianity described by Bland and Hoard infuses the history and culture of North America so thoroughly that the enduring racial contradictions and tensions described in their article are embedded in the psyches of North American whites more generally. The culture that Bland and Hoard articulate is part of the North American oxygen that we breathe. One of the strange consequences is that we all become both victims and perpetrators of the injustices that the authors describe as rife in evangelical Christianity.