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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 will be available in November. 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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