‘White Lies’: The Temptation to Cancel Ugly History

I can’t remember not going to church. My youthful experiences ranged from Pentecostal to Baptist to non-denominational. But regardless of the setting, one thing that stands out in hindsight was how rarely we took the Lord’s Supper. I don’t know all the reasons for this omission (though I have some guesses). But having been a member of a church for 13 years that practices almost weekly communion, it’s hard to imagine going back. It’s also hard for me to imagine that those churches wouldn’t have partaken more often with a more biblical understanding of how the Lord uses signs and…