For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“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 […]
Read MoreI’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 […]
Read MoreApparently, 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 […]
Read MoreA 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.
Read MorePumla Gobodo- Madikizela, a coordinator for South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996 and a researcher on trauma and healing, reminds us that forgiveness is possible no matter the attrocity on Duke Divinity School’s blog Faith & Leadership. She shares with us the lessons that she has learned from forgiveness and challenges the belief that the only […]
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The Raceless Gospel 