One important and effective way to challenge the anti-woke crusade is by returning to what “wakefulness” actually means: awareness, honesty, and values-based living. What’s ironic and somewhat disturbing is the ferocity with which conservative Christians attack the very consciousness their Scriptures call for. What they don’t seem to understand is that being “woke” isn’t political, it’s human (and it’s commanded of them by the Scriptures they claim to follow). If we want to grow and thrive, we need to stop sleepwalking through inherited beliefs and start living our lives with intention!
The readings we covered in this week’s main episode, for the 1st Sunday of Advent (Cycle A), give us a perfect setup for a conversation we really need to have. Advent begins with this call to “wake up,” to pay attention, to stop drifting through life as if we have all the time in the world. And it’s almost laughable that the same Christian groups who shout the loudest about “defending the Bible” are the ones most aggressively fighting against the very idea of being awake. They’ve built an entire movement around attacking the word woke. They treat it like it’s some kind of dangerous moral virus.
And yet… the Scriptures they claim to believe urge people to do exactly that: wake up.
So tonight, in Afterthoughts, I want to name the hypocrisy. I want to take a careful, values-based look at why the anti-woke crusade is not only intellectually dishonest — it is spiritually and religiously dishonest. I want to explore why wakefulness has always been a core part of human growth, moral development, and yes, even Christianity. And I want to end by talking about how we move forward with clarity and purpose, instead of getting dragged into the mud by people who are proudly, aggressively, performatively asleep.
So, let’s dive into that… in this episode of Afterthoughts!
