I will be teaching the Raceless Gospel and from my first book, Take Me to the Water: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church, at the Queen’s Foundation in Birmingham, UK. It’s three days of powerful conversations to explore scripture and the work and witness of baptism as a response to tackling power-plays and power dynamics of race/ism in theological education, leadership, and ministries. I am looking forward to leading five sessions and offering the chapel sermon as outlined below:
Session 1: “Take Me to the Water”: Coming Clean About Race, Racism and Racialization
Participants will apply their understanding of baptismal identity to their stories of racialization, experiences of/ with white- body supremacy, interpersonal injustice, and spiritual renewal by way of “the cleansing flood” of baptism (cf. First Peter 3:18-21), discerning the ways that this form of regeneration may be watered down and rendered ineffective to combat social ills.
Session 2: Wading in the Water: The Historical and Immediate Implications of Baptism
Participants will discuss baptismal identity as status quo resistant as expressed in an early church creed aimed at undermining the power dynamics of culture, class, and gender, as subsequent disruptor of “relationships of ruling” and as evidence of a second creation narrative for a new humanity in preparation for a “kin-dom” coming, proclaimed by the Raceless Gospel (cf. Galatians 3:27-28).
Session 3: Testing the Water
Participants will examine what it means to be a baptized believer in theory and in the practice of antiracist Christian ministry and considering the Raceless Gospel.
Evening Worship:
Sermon title: “Troubled Water” (John 5:1-9, NRSV)
Session 4: Baptism as Reflection Pool
Participants will evaluate their theological lens through a baptismal pedagogy and consider the ripple effects of one’s baptismal identity in their ministry context.
Session 5: Make Waves
Participants will discuss the difference one’s baptismal identity makes for the sake of authentic being and belonging in fellowship and strategize ways to increase its effect in the church.
I invite you to reflect on your baptism and the implications of your baptismal identity in your practice of Christian discipleship.
The Raceless Gospel 
Your words are warmly received, Leroy. Thank you so much for your support and encouragement. The journey is made better because of it.
Blessings, Starlette, as you make final preparations for and then speak at five sessions at the upcoming conference in the UK. I am impressed by how you are now becoming better known internationally. May your influence continue to grow and become more and more fruitful!