For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
Recently, the news has covered incidents involving African American persons being physically and verbally assaulted, bullied, disturbed, falsely arrested, harassed and questioned for doing things considered normal in any other context or culture, that is, barbecuing, eating, shopping, sitting on one’s porch, sleeping, vacationing. Persons would argue that there is an increase in such episodes. […]
Read MoreWe should not attempt to convince ourselves that we need to make room for God. The psalmist ensures our perspective is clear on the matter. Let’s not put the creature before the Creator. No, “the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof” (Psalm 24.1). But, true to our capitalistic form, we think that we […]
Read MoreFeet to pavement, people are marching all over the country. Every month, there seems to be a new outcry. Life in America has become one of continual outrage. Speaking for one segment of the population and at a time that doesn’t seem too distant now, James Baldwin stated quite emphatically, “To be a Negro in […]
Read More“Change your racial habits and you change the way you see the world.” These are the words of Jonathan Wilson- Hartgrove. They are from his most recent book Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion. In stunning language, Wilson- Hartgrove writes of the internalized arrangement that socially colored white people must make in order to […]
Read More“16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. 17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! […]
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The Raceless Gospel 