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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
This week, I am attending the Children, Youth and a New Kind of Christianity conference hosted at Calvary Baptist Church in downtown DC. Dave Csinos, the founder and chair of the planning committee, has drawn leaders from across the world for “intentional reflection and conversation about the spiritual formation of young people within progressive, emerging, […]