Mandela’s Last Supper

Allan Boesak, co- author of Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism, recently brought this image to my attention.  I  was in attendance at Howard University’s School of Divinity’s 96th Annual Alumni Convocation for which he and Curtiss DeYoung were the guest speakers.  Boesak shared with us his insights on race, South African apartheid […]

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Stop the Train!

How does believing in race make us better Christians?  How do its prejudices and stereotypes help us to love our neighbor, to welcome the stranger, to take care of the orphan and the widow?  What does race really do for us?  What does it strengthen our faith in? Thomas Dixon Jr., a Southern Baptist Minister […]

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Race and the Irresponsible Self

Race allows you and I to look away, to not look at ourselves fully or completely.  We do not have to face ourselves alone and a part from its insecurities that make us feel safe.  We want race to tell us what we see and who/ what/ when/ where/ why we should ignore.  We need race to do for us […]

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V.O.T.E.

Today, on Facebook, someone posted this acronym:  V.O.T.E.–Victory Over The Enemy.  It is messages like these that I seek to address and undo through my writings.  The Church must be Christ’s Church but it seems that this election has revealed that there is a Church of the Democrats, a Church of the Republicans and a […]

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Seeing Christ and Satan in the 2012 Presidential Election

Though the Democratic Party is represented by a donkey, its candidate should not be confused with the one who entered Jerusalem triumphantly on one.  I begin with this statement because it seems that I cannot say often enough the necessity of separating our racial allegiances from our profession of faith.  It is necessary that the […]

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