For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
I have spent the past couple of weeks preparing for and then preaching and teaching in the tristate area. Repeatedly, I have heard across age groups and genders this anxiety that with the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States that all is lost, that we have taken ten steps […]
Read MoreHow did the invisible, immortal and eternal God become a blonde haired, blue eyed socially colored white man? Who approved of this gross social reduction and theological diminishing of the Divine? And why do we continue to go along with it? Why do we worship whiteness as if the God of the Christian faith? Why do […]
Read More“God is a white man.” This is not a new declaration but an old reduction made by persons who argue against a belief in the God of Christianity because in the name of this God, persons have stolen, enslaved, sold, raped, murdered, pillaged and annihilated indigenous cultures of the earth. They surmise, God must be white because they are not […]
Read More“God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ~ John 4.24, NRSV Halloween is over and yet, it seems nearly impossible to remove the mask of whiteness from the face of God. Now a spooky, to be avoided, death- wielding deity, this socially colored white God has it in […]
Read MoreIt seems that we are not satisfied with our humanity, that there is always a need to be something more than human, super human, a special set of humans. In our quest, we often attempt to reduce the value and visibility of others. Because we cannot be more human unless we make others less human. We […]
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The Raceless Gospel 