Because We’ve Been Forgiven

“Then Peter came to Him and said, ‘Lord, how many times could my brother sin against me and I forgive him? As many as seven times?’ ‘I tell you, not as many as seven,’ Jesus said to him, ‘but seventy times seven. For this reason, the kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king […]

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Can Christ Not Forgive The Sins of Race?

She asked for my forgiveness. Though she had not been involved in the plot, had not planted the box of dynamite or placed it under the steps of the church, though she was a child perhaps old enough to remember but not to act or fully understand, though I wasn’t even born as it was September 15, 1963, didn’t live […]

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Train Up A Child…

“If you have the same skin, you can play together but if you don’t have the same skin, you can’t play together.” ~”Kids On Race: The Hidden Picture” with Anderson Cooper Anderson Cooper’s report serves as a reminder of the power of parenting and the need to teach our children about cultural differences in a manner that […]

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Confessing Our Prejudices

“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.” ~ Matthew 7.1-2, New Revised Standard Version There are some things that we don’t want to pray about, that we choose not to enter […]

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Collecting Questions

Questions. It seems that I have an endless supply of them, especially when it comes to race. I guess that I collect them. In fact, I am always looking for the right word and more specifically, the right question to unravel the social construct of race. I sit and think not about answers to race […]

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