For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
To be a socially colored “black” person is to be kept down, prevented from rising and especially not to the top. If you are up, then you are an “uppity Negro” and out of place, out of character. You think that you are “better than your own people” and need to be taken down a […]
Read More“How are you doing, my sister?” “Can you spare some change, my brother?” I hear it often from older African American men who wish to pay me a compliment or are asking for assistance. I hear it as respectful, an expression of social grace as it assumes a relational closeness that could draw a smile […]
Read More“The disciple is the one, who intent upon becoming Christ-like and so dwelling in his ‘faith and practice,’ systematically and progressively rearranges his affairs to that end.” ~ Dallas Willard This morning, I began reading Dallas Willard’s The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’ Essential Teachings on Discipleship. I am almost certain that afterwards I will read […]
Read More“They don’t want us here.” “You know how they are.” “You know what they say about ________ people.” They– the ominous, seemingly ever- present gender neutral plural pronoun that follows us through life. We include these social gatekeepers, an internalized inner circle of critics and pseudo sages of America’s many cultures in our conversations. Their […]
Read More“The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is… that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has as always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil I recently completed the reading of Eugene Peterson’s A Long Obedience in […]
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The Raceless Gospel 