Hello on Being Listeners, I'm Marie Samboley, the producer of Living the Questions,

where I ask Christa to reflect on questions from you, our community.

In the past, you've sent us some really great questions on everything from vulnerability

to the creative value of boredom and even how we can be present to our hurting world.

Living the questions is coming back this spring, and Christa would love to hear what's been on your mind.

So send us your questions at onbeing.org slash askchrista.

And listen for her reflections right here in the on-being podcast feed soon.

Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the

spiritual foundation for a loving world. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding

principle and animating force for our lives. A powerful love that helps us live in sacred

relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.

Where does it hurt? That's a question the Civil Rights Legend Ruby Sales learned to ask during

the days of that movement. A question she found to have a power to drive to the heart of the matter.

It's a question we scarcely know how to ask in public life now. Ruby Sales says we must be as

clear about what we love as about what we hate if we want to make change. And even as she unsettles

some of what we think we know about the force of religion in civil rights history, Ruby Sales names

a spiritual crisis of white America as a calling of this time. What is it that public theology

can say to the white person in Massachusetts who's heroin addicted? I don't hear anyone speaking

to the 45 year old person in Appalachia who feels like they've been eradicated because whiteness

is so much smaller today than it was yesterday because there's nothing wrong with being

European American. That's not the problem. It's almost like white people don't believe the other

white people are worthy of being redeemed. I'm Chris to tip it and this is on being.

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