Someone shared photographs of the entire chapter so it can’t be said the quotes are being taken out of context. You can read them in the screenshots in this article linked at the end.
It’s also written by, you guessed it, a PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY, Chinequa Walker-Barnes of Mercer University.
“Dear God,
Please help me to hate white people. Or at least to want to hate them. At least, I want to stop caring about them, individually and collectively. I want to stop caring about their misguided, racist souls, to stop believing that they can be better, that they can stop being racist.”
“Lord, if it be your will, harden my heart. Stop me from striving to see the best in people. Stop me from being hopeful that White people can do and be better. Let me imagine them instead as white-hooded robes standing in front of burning crosses.”
“Let me see them as hopelessly unrepentant, reprobate bigots who have blasphemed the Holy Spirit and who need to be handed over to the evil one.”
See the full article and screenshots: This best-selling devotional has a prayer that literally says “Dear God, please help me to hate white people.” This is a real book you can buy. At Target. from Not The Bee
This comment is originally from April 7, 2021, when this content was in my forum. I saved some of it and moved it to posts.
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I didn’t realize Sarah Bessey was the one who edited (“curated”) this book until I saw her name in an article related to it. Then I saw the list of authors and it all made sense.
Sarah Bessey is another woman I’ve watched over the past several years going from someone asking questions to completely falling off the rails theologically. She was besties with Rachel Held Evans before Evans died. She was the one who told people on Twitter after Rachel died that if they didn’t know Rachel to keep her name out of your mouth (or whatever the phrase is). She was furious if people said anything negative about Rachel.
Now I understand why it’s a prayer book that features a prayer about hating white people. Even if it was meant with the best of intentions, it was really foolish to include something like that given the state of the world.
Others who read the book have pointed out it’s basically Critical Race Theory packaged up nicely for women who like something religious.
I cannot imagine going through life thinking that God wants you to hate yourself because you are white or hate other people because they are white. It’s insane.
There was this as well. (I’m moving these things over from the forums.)
https://youtu.be/U7fFD55Koh4?t=2367
Oh, you guys. We were just too stupid to realize this was supposed to be an imprecatory prayer.
https://www.sarahbessey.com/statement