To date, I have published 1,040 posts for this blog. It is my largest body of work and the race-less gospel is my life’s devotion to God. It is a sacred charge and a holy vision that I have been given. I can take no credit for the ability to see beyond the machinery of […]
While the Washington Post reports that there is a surge in hate graffiti in my area and video of the confession of Dylann Roof, accused murderer of nine members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in 2015, has been released to the public, I am praying that more stories like the ones emerging from the protest of the North Dakota pipeline […]
Yesterday, I introduced the concept of the race pass and through social media continued to unpack the idea. I often pray for divine insight into the social construct of race with the hope of further revealing its weaknesses and prayerfully, loosening its grip on our faith. I think […]
Get a pass: “To disregard, to take no notice of something (bad or embarrassing)” Most of us are familiar with the race card. A person plays the race card when she or he accuses another of racism. It is also suggested that this card is played when a person brings race into a conversation, suggesting that an incident was prompted by […]
Christ has come! This first Sunday of Advent reminds us that power was found in a cradle– not a crown. Like persons in Jesus’s day, we are guilty of looking for him in the wrong places and among the wrong people. As outlined in his stories, Jesus came to rearrange and change the order of […]