Walking On Race

“Immediately, he made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.  And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up to the mountain by himself to pray.  When evening came, he was there alone, but by this time the boat, battered by the […]

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Presenting Our Bodies

“Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.  No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.  For sin […]

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Tired Of Race

I’m not searching for a middle ground, an either/or, both/and solution to race.  I don’t believe in compromise when it comes to the matter for the loss is too great if race remains in our lives.  No one will win; no one ever has.  I find nothing of use in the designations of race or its […]

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Before You Say I Do

Apparently, at the the First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, which is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, the members (at least five or six of them) need to know what race you are.  In the church’s 150 year history, there has never been an African American couple to wed there and that won’t change– at least […]

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Not So Different After All

A recent article about President Obama’s relation to America’s first African slave through his mother’s lineage reminds us that people are not as they appear and that we cannot judge persons by the social coloring of skin. We are not as disconnected or as different as race would have us to believe.

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