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Founded in 1951 as Campus Crusade for Christ, Cru is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.
The debate over critical race theory has landed at Cru, one of the country’s most prominent parachurch ministries, where a 179-page letter alleging an overemphasis on racial justice has exacerbated tensions that have been quietly brewing within the organization for years.
Titled “Seeking Clarity and Unity,” the document was submitted to Cru president Steve Sellers in November 2020 and spread inside the organization before appearing online in May. Its authors, a grassroots group of Cru staff members, raise concerns that a “victim-oppressor worldview” has become embedded throughout the organization, dividing staff and detracting from the true gospel.
In a detailed reflection at
Mere Orthodoxy, William Murrell offers a trenchant criticism of my article “Evangelicals and Race Theory” (February). He makes an intriguing suggestion: Much of the debate over critical race theory derives from different understandings of what CRT is. While some see it primarily as a method (a mere academic activity), many of its critics see it as a metanarrative (a totalizing worldview), and still others as a mood (an affective response to perceived systemic injustice). A failure to distinguish among these three different expressions of CRT has led to the adoption of faulty reading strategies and misunderstandings.