For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
The spiritual discipline of the race-less life is a difficult one to practice. Committing to it daily may sometimes seem impossible as there are multiple opportunities to exercise this belief often because of something we have thought, said or done. Race-lessness not only challenges the thoughts, words and actions of others but ourselves. The training […]
Read More“We create among ourselves what we choose to notice. Once this work of self-authorship has begun, we inhabit the world we’ve created. We self- seal. We don’t notice anything except those things that confirm what we already think about who we already are… When we succeed in moving outside our normal process of self- reference […]
Read More“They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when he had stepped out of th boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him anymore, even with a chain; for he […]
Read MoreOur Many Selves is the title of Elizabeth O’Connor’s 1971 publication. A member of The Church of the Savior in Washington, D.C., she originally wrote it for the missions groups that staffed the Potter’s House, a coffee house belonging to The Church of the Savior. Inspired by the words, “radically committed minority,” found in Erich Fromm’s […]
Read MoreThomas R. Kelly writes in A Testament of Devotion, “We are trying to be several selves at once, without all of our selves being organized by a single, mastering Life within us. Each of us tends to be, not a single self, but a whole committee of selves. There is a civic self, the parental self, […]
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The Raceless Gospel 