For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
Thank you to Minister Thomas Bowen who afforded me the opportunity to put my race-less faith to work this morning as Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. under the pastoral leadership of Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith led a service of remembrance and healing for four little girls, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair, who died almost […]
Read MoreIn a letter to the editor of The New York Times, John L. Hodge, a retired lawyer and former professor of philosophy, asks the hard questions of race and provides a remedy that doesn’t require an apology or reparations, protests or demonstrations, an appeal to the Supreme Court or a change in the laws of […]
Read More“I’d rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.” ~ Psalm 84.10, NRSV Pastor Makeda Pennycooke, an African American pastor at Freedom House Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, recently sent an email to church volunteers that has caused some persons to rethink their understanding of the […]
Read More“The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days, the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Additional Resource […]
Read More“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, ‘Love your enemies.’ It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they […]
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The Raceless Gospel 