Anthony also beautifully expresses the “basic desire” of the faith: to cut through and overcome the powers that divide and distract and so often drive us, with a telos of nothing less than shalom.

the church and postmodern culture: conversation: The Panopticon of Ecclesial White-ness: Taking Foucault to a Church divided
I raise these issues because I believe Christ has raised from the dead…and has defeated the ‘powers’ on the Cross. One of those powers is the domination of particular ethnic creational structures (i.e. whiteness) that wants to continue to make the rules and contruct the canons of ‘authentic’ truth and knowledge of the Christian faith.

What I want is shalom.

Highly recommended reading, the whole post of Anthony’s and the comment thread that follows.