Righteousness as a Path

Gospel

Righteousness as whole person, heart-driven, desire to bless

Choose the path that allows you to check fruit

People who are different from you

Woman

Racism

Choose the path that focuses on inward obedience to Jesus rather than outward power displays

Marriage

People who are different from you

Woman

Racism

Critical race theory - postmodern view of race

no absolute truth - truth claims are power claims

Critical legal studies

All law is politics. Law serves the interests of the wealthy and powerful by protecting them against the demands of the poor and the weak.

Opposed to liberalism - individual rights - John Stuart Mills - each man should have the right to do anything so long as it doesn’t harm someone else… Liberal rights are a screen hiding the true nature of oppression in society.

Radical feminism - The questions is not whether men and women are the same or different. Sex is a hierarchy - men have power and women do not - it will always be this way.

According to the UCLA School of Public Affairs:

CRT recognizes that racism is engrained in the fabric and system of the American society. The individual racist need not exist to note that institutional racism is pervasive in the dominant culture. This is the analytical lens that CRT uses in examining existing power structures. CRT identifies that these power structures are based on white privilege and white supremacy, which perpetuates the marginalization of people of color.[10]

Legal scholar Roy L. Brooks has defined CRT as "a collection of critical stances against the existing legal order from a race-based point of view", and says

it focuses on the various ways in which the received tradition in law adversely affects people of color not as individuals but as a group. Thus, CRT attempts to analyze law and legal traditions through the history, contemporary experiences, and racial sensibilities of racial minorities in this country. The question always lurking in the background of CRT is this: What would the legal landscape look like today if people of color were the decision-makers?[11]O

Relational caring. Not color blind but individual caring Whole-person Motivation - not broad brush but heart-filled Blessing.- not from power but obedience Kingdom. - not human actualization but laying up treasure in heaven - kingdom values

Will you...

Seek to obey Jesus?

Avoid false teachers who focus on externals rather than internals

Seek the path of being light to the world?