Author: Starlette Thomas, Race Abolitionist

Seeking to lead words and people to their highest and most authentic expression, I am the principal architect of a race/less world.

A Call for Great Christianity

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“… there is plenty of Christianity that cannot solve our problem either– little, petty, hide-bound Christianity, an escape from life, utterly irrelevant to the vast issues that confront mankind.” ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick, A Great Time to be Alive: Sermons on Christianity in Wartime, 1944 Fosdick writes these words in his first sermon in this collection of […]

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Race and Political Party Affiliation: Is there a connection?

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The Washington Post looks at “The politics of race and religion in two pie charts” and provides a summary of the results of a study conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life while examining the stereotypes affiliated with both parties.  Is there a connection between the social construct ofo race and one’s party affiliation?  […]

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Confronting Our Obsession with the Flesh

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“As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it and it is gone and its place knows it no more.  But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him and his righteousness to children’s […]

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Thomas Watson on the Image of God

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“Watson was one of the most concise, racy, illustrative and suggestive of those eminent divines who made the Puritan age the Augustan period of evangelical literature. There is a happy union of sound doctrine, heart- searching experience and practical wisdom throughout all his works… His writings are his best memorial; perhaps he needed no other, […]

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First Lady Michelle Obama: The Face of a Slave?

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The New York Daily News reports that First Lady Michelle Obama’s face was superimposed onto a famous painting of a former French slave and placed on the August 2012 cover of a Spanish magazine, Fuera de Serie.  Though she is praised as “great woman” in the article, some say that the image is an expression of racism. […]

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