Take Me to the Water Offers a Raceless Gospel to the Segregated Church

“Take Me to the Water”: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church is the newest release from Nurturing Faith Books and marks a turning point for the raceless gospel. Take Me to the Water offers a critical look at baptism, the rite of passage meant to signify new birth, and the segregation of […]

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“Take Me to the Water” Takes a Deep Dive into Baptismal Identity

“Ours is a world dry with injustice, hatred, and ongoing racialized terror that limits not only the flourishing of minoritized persons, but all of us. Starlette Thomas calls us back to the refreshing, revolutionary waters of baptism. What identity will define and order our lives together? Starlette Thomas may indeed convince us that centering our […]

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From Blog to Book: “Take Me to the Water” Will Be Released in November

I began this blogging journey in March of 2011 and a few days ago, I submitted edits for the proof of my first book, Take Me to the Water: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church. I should have told you sooner but I was kept away by writing deadlines and check […]

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Tear It Down

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 […]

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