Don’t let race fool you
April 1st is reserved for pranks. No serious business today. But, I thought it could also serve to remind us to not be fooled. You are more than the eyes can see. You are race-less and that’s no joke.
Read MoreAuthor: Starlette Thomas, Race Abolitionist
Seeking to lead words and people to their highest and most authentic expression, I am the principal architect of a race/less world.
Not My Problem
I am at a meeting of clergy for three days of specialized training in interim ministry. Day one focuses on theories. On the second day, the facilitator offered a few tools and way too many personal stories. But, when we began a discussion about power and he wanted to move to his next slide, the group of mostly European Americans […]
Read MoreNot Enough For Me
I know that the actions committed in the name of race are real, that is makes a believer and faithful follower out of us, that we pledge allegiance to our skin and create borders around our bodies. No race- mixing. But, race does not have a real name for me. Socially constructed, I don’t want this American […]
Read MoreHarvard Graduate School of Education teaches us how to talk about ‘race, controversy and trauma’
“It shouldn’t be special when a church calls out racism and hatred. It should be the rule, not the exception.” {Tyler Jones} “We preach that the root is sin, but it’s too uncomfortable for us to call the sin by its full name: white supremacy.” {Michael Slater} Following unflinching and stern words of rebuke against the […]
Read MoreGive up stereotypes for Lent
“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself […]
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The Raceless Gospel 