January 30, 2025
Black church leaders are calling for unified resistance towards Challenge 2025, which is “knowledgeable by white Christian Nationalism.”
Black church leaders are banding collectively amid the return of Donald Trump to the White Home and calling for Black resistance towards “white Christian Nationalism,” aka Challenge 2025.
In an announcement dated Jan. 1 and later revealed by Reel City Information, over two dozen Black ministers issued “A Credo to Legatees of the Black Church Custom.” The assertion requires Black church leaders and its members to withstand white Christian nationalism by way of daring acts of defiance.
Among the many urged acts of resistance embrace investing in Black-owned banks, supporting Black companies, and offering scholarships to assist college students attend vocational faculties and traditionally Black faculties and universities (HBCUs). Taking these actions could be in direct response to Trump’s current government orders, which fall according to Challenge 2025, an agenda Black church leaders say “is knowledgeable by white Christian Nationalism.”
“We imagine Black individuals ought to return to the ecumenical Black Church custom and renew fellowship with their brothers and sisters,” the assertion learn, “to assist combat and resist hegemonic practices which proceed to endorse under-resourced private and non-private funding to abolish human poverty.”
“We imagine our Credo is impressed by the Spirit of the Lord: Subsequently, our Credo isn’t a response to Challenge 2025,” it acknowledged in conclusion. “As a substitute, it’s an moral response to white Christian Nationalism.”
Rev. Barbara Williams-Skinner, a coordinator of Faiths United to Save Democracy and the onetime government director of the Congressional Black Caucus, burdened the significance of the Credo in gentle of ongoing assaults on DEI initiatives and the rollback of civil rights protections.
“I added my title to the Credo as a result of it prophetically calls Black clergy again to the theology of ethical resistance within the spirit of Frederick Douglass and plenty of different righteous resisters to injustice and oppression like these inherent in Challenge 2025,” she stated. “Challenge 2025 is an all-out assault on over 60 years of civil rights safety of African American individuals within the U.S.”
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