For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“Give thanks in all circumstances.” ~ First Thessalonians 5.18, NRSV We have no problem counting the days of children but the days of adults prove difficult, embarrassing even. Our milestones are often covered up: the first gray hair, the first pain that won’t go away, the first time we could no longer do this or […]
Read MoreJudgment. We just can’t seem to get it right. We forget who we are in the courtroom: all sinners, guilty as charged. We forget that Jesus defends us all, that Jesus is a friend of sinners, a friend to Officer Darren Wilson and the late Mr. Michael Brown, Jr. before and after they met each […]
Read MoreFerguson, Missouri has commanded the attention of many persons across the nation for months now. Police brutality, even suspected excessive force in cases involving European American police officers and African American suspects, is a sensitive issue in America for many reasons, some of which are founded; others of which are not. Many persons see this […]
Read MoreRace is a modern invention of the European Enlightenment: “European Enlightenment thinkers retained the Greek ideal of reason, as well as this reason’s categorical function of discriminating between the cultured (now called the ‘civilized) and the ‘barbarian’ (the ‘savage’ or the ‘primitive’). It can be argued, in fact, that the Enlightenment’s declaration of itself as […]
Read MoreRace allows us to categorize people, to lump entire human populations together, to pack them into overcrowded boxes and store them in the socioeconomic basement of our society. Race helps us to forget our commonality as human beings, “out of sight, out of mind.” It focuses on and creates more differences than even exist in […]
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The Raceless Gospel 