In 2015, he was selected as one of the ECC’s “ 40 Under 40” leaders to watch, and the Huffington Post named him one of the “ Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.”Īn ordained minister, Gilliard has served in pastoral ministry in Atlanta, Chicago, and Oakland. Gilliard also serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association and Evangelicals for Justice. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won the 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press. Scripture repeatedly affirms that privilege is real and declares that, rather than exploiting it for selfish gain or feeling immobilized by it, Christians have an opportunity to steward privilege and a responsibility to leverage it to further the kingdom and sacrificially love our neighbors.ĭominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Love Mercy Do Justice (LMDJ) initiative of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). Privilege is largely a social consequence of our unwillingness to reckon with and turn from sin. Our lack of repentance conforms us to the patterns of this world, keeping us content amid sinful inequities, complicit with systemic injustice, and apathetic in oppressive context. This domesticated, unbiblical understanding of repentance bears no fruit and lacks the power to transform broken people, relationships, systems, and structures. Rather than truly turning away from sin-back to God-we often equate repentance with a mere oral confession. Many have failed to do this, in part, because repentance has become diluted. While preparing the way for the Lord, John the Baptist declares, "Produce fruit in keeping with repentance."
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