For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
This is what some persons indigenous to what is now the United States say. Mic recently posted an article as well as a video capturing a portion of a couple of women’s perspective on the holiday. So, while we are passing the turkey and gravy, let us not pass over the experience of others on Thanksgiving Day. As we […]
Read MoreInteresting title, huh? Well, I have a bit of good news to share. I learned this past week that my grant proposal for the Louisville Institute’s Pastoral Study Project was accepted. Woo- hoo! What does this mean? It’s means that I am going to Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia! I will learn in community the […]
Read MoreOn Sunday, there was another church massacre. This time in Sutherland Springs, Texas. While I was inviting my congregation to pray for the victims of the latest terror attack in New York City, another was occurring. Twenty- six people, many of them children, are among the dead. The number of persons killed is made worse by […]
Read More“Of two possibilities,” my mother loved to tell me, “choose always the third.” She is a Benedictine nun. I found the words of Sister Joan Chittier in a collection of writings on community titled Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People. I have been carrying it around for a couple of months […]
Read More“The doors of the church are open.” This reminder needs to scroll below news reports of border walls constructed to protect against the “alien invasion” of our neighbor. Because there are no illegal human beings, no one smuggled from the mind of God to earth and our humanity requires no paperwork. Because “the earth is […]
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The Raceless Gospel 