For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
I recently completed my final report for the Louisville Institute. These generous partners in ministry awarded me a grant to study the sociopolitical construct of race, Clarence Jordan’s Koinonia Farm and why persons fear Christian community. I visited Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia. It was Clarence’s “demonstration plot.” He would create his own world, challenging […]
Read MoreA picture has surfaced of Justin Trudeau, now the prime minister of Canada, wearing “brown face.” To offer a comprehensive description, he also has a brown neck and hands at an “Arabian Nights” themed event back in 2001. He is a 29 year old teacher– not a student– at West Point Grey Academy. It’s a […]
Read MoreIt’s almost 11 a.m., that holy hour that is concentrated with our hubris, when the worship services are but a reflection of our preferences, when the pews are filled with the people we are most comfortable with. It’s almost 11 a.m. on this fine Sunday morning where people dress up or down and then sit […]
Read MoreI’ve had to say this in church, at a so- called multicultural, we are the example of inclusion and God’s kingdom come to earth one. “Don’t touch my hair.” After compliments, hands uninvited reached forward to finger my tresses. “It’s so soft,” she said. Her response revealing much and undoing more of a potential relationship […]
Read MoreOn this day in 1955, a fourteen year old African American boy named Emmett Till from Chicago, Illinois was killed in Money, Mississippi. I know his story by heart; it was the first one I learned on domestic terrorism and mob lynching when I began my personal study of African American history. He went […]
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The Raceless Gospel 