Tear It Down

August 31, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

Race is a sociopolitical construct, a long word and a long way of saying that human beings made it up. Not revelation brought down from a mountain like Moses in Exodus but it was built into a system of oppression from the tip of our tongues up, which is why I talk it down and […]

Season Four of the Raceless Gospel Podcast Asks Listeners to Do Some Heavy Lifting

July 31, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

Is the church a body or a building? Card-carrying member of a church or cross-bearer in the world, how do you view the body of Christ? Season four of The Raceless Gospel podcast invites listeners to take a fresh look at what it means to follow Jesus – to the ends of the earth or […]

An Embodied Faith for Somebody

June 30, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition,” James Baldwin wrote in Giovanni’s Room. He opened a door of deeper meaning for his readers and affirmed what I believe with every fiber of my being: You are always right at home in your body. I close my eyes and make myself right […]

The Raceless Gospel is graduating!

May 2, 2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

On May 8th at 2 p.m., I will graduate with a Doctor of Ministry degree from Wesley Theological Seminary during a formal ceremony at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. From The Daily Race to The Raceless Gospel Initiative at Good Faith Media, this vision of a raceless “kin-dom” has come a long way. […]

When the World is Shaking, Grab Howard Thurman’s The Search for Common Ground

March 31, 2023.Reading time 8 minutes.

Howard Thurman’s The Search for Common Ground probes the beginning of the never- ending, that is the ground of our communal being. When the world is shaking and you fear you might lose your grip, grab a hold of this book. He asserts that there is a place where we all belong, where every living […]