For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
This little light of mine, I’m gonna’ let it shine. This little light of mine, I’m gonna’ let it shine. This little light of mine, I’m gonna’ let it shine. Let it shine! Let it shine! Let it shine! Recently, three historic African American- led […]
Read More“Once we start paying attention to Jesus’ way, it doesn’t take long for us to realize that following Jesus is radically different from following anyone else.” | Eugene Peterson, The Jesus Way The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously said, “The most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.” We […]
Read More“If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.” | Ludwig Wittgenstein Most persons feel compelled to answer to race and to question those who don’t. “Who does race say that you are?” Skin deep, the epitome of superficial meaning, we speak as if its value is apparent, a […]
Read MoreThis morning, I led a conversation on the fights that form us as Christians– red versus blue carpet, choir versus praise team, contemporary music versus hymns, offering plate versus Apple pay, suits versus skinny jeans and a t- shirt, 8 a.m. versus 11 a.m. service. You know, deeply transformative wars for righteousness. And these fights […]
Read MoreI didn’t forget. Though I don’t have flowers or dinner reservations, I wanted to wish us a happy eighth anniversary. I have been writing, thinking, talking about the socio- political construct of race, the malformation of Christian community and the call to be reconciled in a world that thrives on division for 2,920 days. It […]
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The Raceless Gospel 