Whether you go to a church or not, this message has a lot of good to say about many subjects. It is at the core of the system of behavior and belief that began our nation and helped make it a great nation. It is also appropriate to the climate that is fragmenting our society into groups vying for "their rights" and individuals vying for "their rights". It is not a perfect nation, but it is a great nation. It is from Andy Stanley, Pastor of Northpoint Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia. I hope that you will give a look and listen, especially if you go by the name "Christian" or "Pilgrim" as in John Bunyan's book "Pilgrim's Progress". It is the essence of what Alexis de Tocqueville wrote when he stated, "America is Great because America is Good"!
... I'm sorry, I just can't with this. I clicked on a tag "social responsibility" and didn't expect an essentially Christian sermon. While I am normally open minded and receptive to all forms of education and reasoning I am literally sick with/and of anything that has to do with whiteness, Christianity, or American "#1ism". In short: there are a lot of ways to combat the topic of social responsibility besides putting it in the "traditional" (gag) white supremacist, patriarchal, imperialist Christian context. Also: the link definitely doesn't work.
This link will.
http://buckheadchurch.org/messages/younited-states/ I find it intriguing that you would equate Christianity with "Whiteness"? Christianity started with middle eastern people who are neither white or black. This statement in itself belies your pre-determined bias and ,somehow, learned bigotry. To allude that anyone who has a Christian belief is somehow jaded and uneducated is to fly in the face of reason. So, anyone that is " Christian" has nothing worthy to say? I guess Sir Isaac Newton is a babbling fool? Or maybe Louis Pasteur was a biased "white" Christian" guy who hated everyone? I am so sorry that it makes you sick. Should it make a Christian sick if they read or listen to something that is "non-Christian" ? Christians do it every day, and they don't get filled with the vitreol that the tone of your response has . Perhaps you should examine the "roots" of your pessimism in this matter. Which, in the end, means you are nowhere near "open-minded". It is more " self-delusional " than "open-minded". I do apologize for the non-working link.