Hello I'm John Harris and welcome to conversations that matter. Today I'd like to take a few moments to offer a few thoughts on Resolution 9 on Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality which was approved by the Southern Baptist Convention a little over a week ago. During the past week, there has been much debate on the merits of this important resolution.

Did it endorse critical race theory and intersectionality?

Can Christians really use critical race theory in intersectionality as analytical tools?

After all, isn't all truth God's truth?

First, let's briefly define what critical race theory and intersectionality are.

According to Richard Belgado, in his book, what critical race theory and intersectionality are.

According to Richard Belgado, in his book,

Critical Race Theory, after the successes of the civil rights movement,

settler forms of racism started gaining ground,

especially in legal institutions where racism had embedded itself.

Drawing from critical legal studies, feminism, conventional civil rights thought, and ethnic studies,

sociologists and lawyers such as Derek Bell, Alan Freeman, and Kimberly Crenshaw, to name a few,

and then at a language, including terms like micro-aggression, interest convergence,

intersectionality, white privilege, and nativism to create an indispensable

tool which we know as critical race theory.

When compared with a Christian worldview, critical race theory assumes that legal cases should be decided

according to group identity instead of equality before the law.

That biblical hierarchy is oppressive and that children should pay for the sins of their parents and that it is morally

imperative to decenter majority cultures. The Bible is clear.

Exodus 23 says, nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his dispute.

Ephesions 522 through 69 describes the differing responsibilities attached with the relationships

of husbands and wives, parents and children and slaves and masters.

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