Dear Editor,
I read your last two pieces in en with interest. One of them (July) I read with sincere gratitude: I think you touched an important nerve when you spoke about the importance of love for the Lord Jesus. Last year we lost an important member of our local congregation, an elderly lady whose prayers always began ‘Dear Lord Jesus’ and ended ‘in Thy precious Name.’ Her example had often rebuked my own indifference.
Your article, however, in which you recommended the Harvard Implicit Association Test (IAT), raised concerns with me, both from a Biblical point of view, and as a professional statistician. The concept of ‘implicit bias’ is far from empirically validated by the IAT. Statisticians have correctly pointed to multiple flaws in its methodology.
It is also being used within companies and educational establishments to indoctrinate people with the false notion of ‘white privilege’, ‘white fragility’, and other concepts drawn from cultural Marxism.
The IAT is far from being (in your words) ‘thought-provoking and enjoyable’. I would go so far as to say that, functionally, it is a tool of the devil.
I’m sorry to disagree so strongly with a brother. But it really comes back to your splendid July article: the love of Christ that constrains us. When I see how critical theory is destroying what is still good in our culture, and how it is creating division and confusion within the church, dare I keep silent?
In His truly precious Name,
Colin Reeves, Rugby
