Talking About WOKE With A PCA Pastor’s Wife

Recently, a PCA Pastor’s wife (Laurel Johnson) asked me if I could define what I mean when I say WOKE. Keep in mind that Mrs. Johnson tends to have theological views that are vastly different from mine. This wasn’t a question without something lying behind the question.

Below is the definition of WOKE that I sent back to Mrs. Johnson (Sassiterain on Twitter);

WOKE — The act of making sacred, historically allegedly marginalized race, gender and sexual identity groups. Out of this arises a kind of folk theology that teaches that these groups may not be offended as the idea of “offense” is defined by these particular sacralized groups.

The penalty for violating WOKEness is that the one who offends one of these sacralized groups (minorities, feminists, perverts) is excommunicated from society (what we call cancel culture) since the offending party has committed blasphemy.

It’s all very religious…. a “new” faith.

From here Mrs. Johnson, whose husband Pastors a PCA church in Blaine, Washington asked;

Do you believe that supporting racial unity in the churches and interracial marriage is woke?

I responded by answering;

How are you defining “racial unity?” If you’re asking whether or not Christians should support racial unity if racial unity requires reinterpreting Christianity through a Cultural Marxist grid in order to arrive at that holy grail of “racial unity”, the answer is obviously, “NO.”

Interracial marriage by itself is not necessarily WOKE (though it might be and often is). However, the way Interracial marriage is pushed in our culture and by many churches is definitely WOKE; the result of the pervasive influence of Cultural Marxism.

Certainly, interracial marriage should be discouraged. I agree with Muhammed Ali on this point;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqiWFLsgVi4

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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  1. Also Ali…

    After his ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ in Zaire, Muhammad Ali was famously asked “Champ, what did you think of Africa?” to which the Champ replied, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.”

    and again from Ali in his latter years… “The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

    The saying is true from the old seatbelt PSAs… “You can learn a lot from a dummy.”

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