Race Cannot Save Us

“Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.  3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. […]

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Living Scarcely: Race and Christ’s Abundant Life

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” ~Jesus Christ, John 10.10, New Revised Standard Version “A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than […]

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The Race Card Project

The race card. Many persons have been accused of playing it, an idiomatic expression used to suggest that a person is racist or that her or his actions are racially motivated. It is the card that trumps all others; if this were a game of Monopoly, it might be comparable to a “Get out of […]

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Fifteen Reasons Why I Left Race

I have struggled with the concept of race since my early teens. Though race, racism, stereotypes and prejudices have been and continue to be used as a rationale for the ways of American society and its citizens, it was never justified for me. Race did not and remains unable to explain or excuse behavior that would […]

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Do I Look Suspicious?

“Man does not see what the Lord sees, for man sees what is visible, but the Lord sees the heart.” ~I Samuel 16.7 Current students and alumni of Howard University, all members of HU for Trayvon Martin, attack the unfounded premise of racial profiliing and their sadness over the murder of Trayvon Martin in a video created by John Ledbetter. […]

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