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Take Me to the Water: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church

From blog to book, Take Me to the Water: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church is available here. Good Faith Media has also taken the initiative and made my work and witness apart of their own. Not to be confused with a color- blind lens or a post- racial vision, the Raceless Gospel sees race as a caste system with a good paint job. Let’s see what happens when we take it to the water.

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Season Seven of The Raceless Gospel Podcast Offers Evidence of Things Unseen

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The Future of Believing

The future of believing is for imaginaries. Christian faith traditions bound by contextless traditions and visions of yesteryear should be seen from the rearview mirror. Because if we are going to make progress on Howard Thurman’s question posed in Jesus and the Disinherited: “Why is it that Christianity seems impotent to deal radically, and therefore effectively,…

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The Story of America is a Failed Group Project

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