For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
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 […]
Read MoreRace 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 […]
Read MoreToday, 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 […]
Read MoreThough 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 […]
Read MoreThis is the title of the sermon that I heard in this morning’s worship service. Delivered by the Reverend Doctor Robert Smith, Jr., professor of preaching at Beeson Divinity School of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, it was inspired by the words recorded in Second Corinthians 5.18-21. He shared with us his intention to marry […]
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The Raceless Gospel 