ABSTRACT
Grace Academy's (GA) story has something to teach many school communities in the US as they figure out how to educate our increasingly diverse student population. GA faced some of the very tensions: specifically, a student body who defined diversity more broadly then the administration. While GA’s context may be unique, its normative whiteness and the challenges it faced are not. If GA wants unity in the diversity of God’s creation, then it needs to intentionally celebrate difference, provide genuine freedom of choice to choose Christ, and create a culture of inclusion, not authoritarianism. Acting colorblind for Christians, then, is to act as if the Kingdom of Heaven already exists on Earth when it does not. And colorblindness is almost always a mechanism for normalizing whiteness, which prevents any true unity from forming among God’s diverse creation.
