A Watered- down Gospel

September 30, 2022.Reading time 8 minutes.

Something is missing. The communion elements taste different when the American church is divided. Truth be told, it’s only been united during chattel slavery and even that was for a short time. Once the water of baptism was dried off and persons gave the implications of this new birth more thought, there was once again […]

Do you have plans for October 27th?

August 31, 2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

I love it when a plan comes together, except I never had one. Proclaiming The Raceless Gospel is my calling and that’s not something I could have dreamed up. Yet, I can see how it could all lead up to this present moment. What began as a daily blog, The Daily Race, more than ten […]

If you have ears to hear, justice is calling

July 30, 2022.Reading time 12 minutes.

Did you hear that? Do you feel that? Something is shifting. The American empire and its capitalist machinery that pushes its citizens to work themselves to death, to keep the wheels turning. It’s coming undone and to a screeching halt for some. “The Great Resignation,” wherein persons up and quit their jobs without a safety […]

Remembering what freedom calls for on June 19th

June 19, 2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

It’s the second anniversary of Juneteenth as a national observance and today, freedom is still on many Americans’ minds. It’s the second time the United States will mark the occasion of African Americans enslaved two years passed the due date of Abraham Lincoln’s “Emancipation Proclamation.” Freedom always takes time, and we are not free until […]

What Buffalo is known for now

May 24, 2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

Buffalo, New York is known for large snow accumulations and buffalo wings. It is where I moved to at the age of sixteen, making both a Southerner and a Northerner out of me. It is the home of the Buffalo Bills and a little over a quarter million people, including my mother and siblings. On […]