For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
The recent murder of nine church members to include the pastor, the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina has hurt me deeply. I am aching in places I cannot touch and for which I don’t believe that there is a salve on the market. It is one thing to […]
Read More“Knowing what’s right does not mean much unless you do what’s right.” ~Theodore Roosevelt There is so much terrain to cover and so many layers to our continuing conversation on race and its progeny. To be sure, I agree with President Obama as to the nature of our conversations moving forward. He said during Wednesday’s […]
Read MoreWhere can we go and be safe? Safe from hatred and prejudice, from oppressive ideologies and violence? Is the cross of Christ not a white flag, a symbol of ultimate sacrifice and a place of surrender? Does it not remind us that the war for our souls is over and won, that we have the […]
Read MoreYesterday, South Carolina governor Nikki Haley did not hide behind the Confederate flag but said it has “no place” on statehouse grounds. Charleston, South Carolina is being connected to Birmingham, Alabama of 1963. The nine lives lost while gathering for prayer and Bible study are connected to the deaths of four little girls who came […]
Read MoreYesterday, during our morning worship service, I read the names of the nine people murdered at Emanuel AME Church last Wednesday by suspected killer 21 year old Dylann Roof at Emanuel AME Church last Wednesday. I am still at a loss for words that would capture all of the feelings and thoughts that are running […]
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The Raceless Gospel 