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

October 31, 2023.Reading time 8 minutes.

“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 […]

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

September 30, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

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 […]

Tear It Down

August 31, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

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 […]

Season Four of the Raceless Gospel Podcast Asks Listeners to Do Some Heavy Lifting

July 31, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

Is the church a body or a building? Card-carrying member of a church or cross-bearer in the world, how do you view the body of Christ? Season four of The Raceless Gospel podcast invites listeners to take a fresh look at what it means to follow Jesus – to the ends of the earth or […]

An Embodied Faith for Somebody

June 30, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition,” James Baldwin wrote in Giovanni’s Room. He opened a door of deeper meaning for his readers and affirmed what I believe with every fiber of my being: You are always right at home in your body. I close my eyes and make myself right […]