Comments on: Longer Still (Post Election Reflections of a Black Man amongst the Evangelicals)

By: Preaching Against Racism Is Not a Distraction from the Gospel - WELCOME TO DR ADAS BLOG

Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:44:31 +0000

[…] into their ears to replace the hope that I had whispered so many years ago. Instead, I sat down and wrote my fears of what his presidency would bring. I wrote because I wanted my children to know there […]

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By: jdunderwood

jdunderwood — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 05:01:58 +0000

Reblogged this on Jen Underwood.

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By: Women and People of Color in Academia

Women and People of Color in Academia — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 14:21:37 +0000

[…] Exploring New Testament Scholarship, Anglicanism and the Black Experience blog, 9 November 2016, https://esaudmccaulley.wordpress.com/2016/11/09/longer-still-post-election-reflections-of-a-black-ma….[4] Due to ETS’ focus on inerrancy, some institutions such as Fuller are not present in ETS.[5] […]

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By: Life as a Minority and a Christian After the 2016 Election - Urban Christian News

Fri, 25 Nov 2016 03:50:29 +0000

[…] of despair that many of us feel today, especially many of my younger family and friends. A brother, Esau McCaulley, has captured well the feeling that many of us African American Christians have. For nearly three decades I’ve been serving as a pastor and often also a seminary […]

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By: Quinn

Quinn — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 23:31:34 +0000

Thank you Esau for your second response to David above. I’ve read your post and this thread with a heavy heart in which I want to feel hope. As a white person, I am comfortable saying that we don’t usually recognize white privilege (including the privilege of having someone else give us immediate answers to our demands) for what it is. Christians like you prophetically remind us of the truth.

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By: Consider others… | Jen Underwood

Consider others… | Jen Underwood — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 02:24:54 +0000

[…] Esau McCaulley […]

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By: AHW

AHW — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 18:45:53 +0000

Sorrow. Shame. Solidarity.
(a European-American who no longer goes by the label “Evangelical”)

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By: graciela alexandra

graciela alexandra — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:25:38 +0000

This post encouraged me to be fearless yet loving. That even though my natural instinct is to shy away from the mic as The Marginalized Evangelical – issues like this must be addressed and the church must be corrected.

After Trump won, a lot of my white Christian friends gloated at the fact that modern day Jezebel didn’t win. Hand in their pocket, whistling their favorite tune- type of gloat. Shooing away the concerns of the marginalized community and coating it with phrases like “God is Sovereign” and “We’ll be alright.”

Who’s we?

Now is not the time to be insensitive. Now is not the time to tell the widow and the orphan that “Everything will be alright”. Now more than ever is the time to love in action.

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By: Esau McCaulley

Esau McCaulley — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:50:40 +0000

I stand by everything that i have written, but thank you.

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By: Kurt Wolfe

Kurt Wolfe — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:29:08 +0000

Hi Esau. I’m Kurt. I love Jesus and so love people of all races. I despise sinful behavior and sin’s warping of my consciousness. I think you have let the media shape your reality (it is identical to theirs) and it is as wrong as their predictions of the election outcome. For instance, I greatly respect what I know of Dr Carson and have learned that he is working with Pres Trump to fix the Obama Care mess. This is one of Trump’s first leadership decisions, hiring a black man. I am sure there will be many more. When he was beginning to gain traction in the bid for nomination I listened to the personal testimony of a black woman, who is the executive in charge of his family’s charitable foundation, who testified of his loving friendship toward her. His family all shared the same love and respect to her. Neither of these are the actions of a racist hate monger.
He has declared that he will be the President of all. He holds the Executive office in the government. That means that he is tasked with executing. carrying out, the laws of the land. That means that illegal aliens are illegal, law breakers. That means that he must defend us from terrorists who try to immigrate while enemies of America. He must defend us from real threats. With this responsibility in mind I hope Trump does mandate law enforcement to deter illegal entry into our country AND stop or severely limit immigration of known threats. I do not anticipate that he will do so hatefully but responsibly The Constitution does not guarantee rights to illegals but to citizens. When he is sworn into office he will swear to defend the Constitution. The Constitution, (and Declaration of Independence) is what I hope Trump follows and it provided the mandate for all men to be free for the first time in the history of world governments. This marvelous event in history happened because men influenced strongly by a faith in Jesus framed it.
Nobody is perfect. Neither were the Founders. We can find all kinds of evil movements and atrocities that have occurred in our country. The Civil war resulted in 600,000 deaths! The war in Chicago is our second largest and has cost over 300,000 black lives murdered by other blacks over the last 30 years. So it is not Trump that should cause you fear! It is the evil inside men, even of your own color. Black-lives-matter focuses on a hand full of cops who have shot black people, some wrongly (this is a terrible thing and punishments should be levied) and others deservingly. But they ignore ‘their own’ murdering their own in vastly larger numbers. Why? Sinfulness? Yes!
I think you should pray about getting involved solving real issues rather than media enhanced issues. Worry about today and work to resolve the evils today. Work to stop instances of whites being pulled from their car and beaten by black men because they voted for Trump. Work to end the threats toward Trump supporters by first reevaluating your mind set and then helping others to do the same. Ask for Jesus to help you to do that and then work for the welfare of President Trump and his supporters today. Go to Chicago and begin influencing peace among Blacks within the city. Let it spread to other cities. God bless you as you pray and work for peace.

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