For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
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 […]
Read MoreGet 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 […]
Read MoreChrist 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 […]
Read MoreHappy Thanksgiving! Despite the headlines and our deadlines, there is much to be thankful for. And while thanksgiving will cause some of us to revisit bad memories shared with a relative (that we are still not speaking to), I have noticed that there are also old words, images and experiences that are being remembered and repeated now. With […]
Read MoreI 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 […]
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The Raceless Gospel 