{"id":6851,"date":"2025-03-03T15:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2025-03-03T15:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:45:36","slug":"raphael-warnock-delivers-sermon-on-gods-executive-order-of-unity-and-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=6851","title":{"rendered":"Raphael Warnock Delivers Sermon on \u2018God\u2019s Executive Order\u2019 of Unity and Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0Tait Manning<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0Micha Green<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

WI Reporting Intern and WI Managing Editor<\/p>\n

With Black History Month in full swing, the\u00a0Washington National Cathedral<\/a>\u00a0in Northwest, D.C. honored historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and welcomed the Rev. Raphael Warnock, Georgia\u2019s Democratic U.S. senator, as a guest preacher on Feb. 16.<\/p>\n

With\u00a0North Carolina Central University<\/a>\u00a0performing uplifting songs throughout the service, and a message from Warnock, a graduate of Morehouse College in Georgia, the cathedral not only highlighted HBCUs, but emphasized the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from a faith perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere we are on this grand Sunday morning\u2014 red, yellow, Black, and brown and white\u2014 speaking with one voice in this moral moment saying, \u2018God chose no partiality,\u2019\u201d Warnock declared during\u00a0HBCU Welcome Sunday<\/a>. \u201cThe God of the heavens and the earth is a God of diversity and equity.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his\u00a0sermon<\/a>, Warnock criticized President Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping\u00a0executive orders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmong these executive orders has been a wholesale, unabashed assault on anything and everything that looks like diversity, equity, and inclusion,\u201d said Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta Georgia, where the celebrated activist the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also served as pastor.\u00a0 \u201cFor those who have made diversity, equity, and inclusion toxic political terms, I want to ask, if you don\u2019t want diversity, what\u2019s the opposite of diversity? If you don\u2019t want inclusion, what do you want the world to look like?\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Warnock said he wasn\u2019t married to the term DEI, as he \u201cjust wants justice,\u201d he noted that\u00a0 \u201cDEI\u201d in Latin means God. Further, considering Trump\u2019s actions, the senator and faith leader explained God\u2019s executive orders to uplift DEI.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn God\u2019s vision for the world there is diversity,\u201d Warnock declared. \u201cIn God\u2019s vision for the world there is equity.\u201d<\/p>\n