For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“Death and life and in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit.” ~ Proverb 18.21, NRSV I am always last but never first, always down and out, never up and over, always angry– it comes with being black, always defending but never safe. I am born to follow orders but never to […]
Read More“Racism or the presupposition that one’s own race is superior or better than another is a denial that all people have been created in the image of God.” ~ J. Daniel Hays, From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race, p. 50
Read More“Adam and Eve are not Hebrews or Egyptians or Canaanites. It is incorrect for the White Church to view them as White or for the Black Church to view them as Black. Their ‘race’ is not identifiable; they are neither Negroid nor Caucasian, nor even Semitic. They become the mother and father of all peoples. […]
Read MorePrivilege (syn.): “honor, freedom, favor, pleasure, right, benefit, advantage, opportunity, license, joy, treat” Disadvantage (syn.): hindrance, inconvenience, drawback, difficulty, demerit, weakness, shortcoming, trouble, burden, hardship, nuisance, minus, handicap” Though shared at family gatherings along with secrets for surviving it, detailed in personal narratives and recorded in historical renderings of the hardships of believing in the […]
Read More“The Bible does not begin with a special race of people. When the first human is introduced into the story, he is simply called adam, which means humankind.” ~ J. Daniel Hays, From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race, 47
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The Raceless Gospel 