For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
The social construct of race and its commandments are often used as supplemental material for the Bible. Or, we take out the characters of the Bible altogether and insert our culture– but no one else’s. God’s promises are for us and not them. God is talking to us and not them. The social construct of […]
Read MoreFlannery O’Connor prayed, “Oh God please make my mind clear. Please make it clean. … Please help me to get down under things and find where You are.” Because it is so easy to become a dumping ground and there are so many things that are piled on top of us. Of course, it does not feel […]
Read MoreI don’t think that there are words to cover the ground of 2016, the depth of loss and grief, the seemingly endless reports of violence, a divisive political election and loss of notable famous faces. More than usual or at least in recent memory, there was a desire to be out with the old and […]
Read MoreFrom Christmas lists to New Year’s resolutions, we have numbered our hopes of making others and ourselves happy. But, there is but one resolve for the Christian, the Great commandment. Matthew records, “When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, 35 and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. […]
Read MoreAnother year, another Advent season. God is with us and it is spectacular. Or, maybe it isn’t anymore. Perhaps, we are beginning to feel that God has come and gone due to a political season that has taken a toll on the American psyche. And then there is the fact that Jesus’ story could now […]
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The Raceless Gospel 