“Down by the Riverside”: The Raceless Gospel for a Desegregated Church

Grab a towel.  I am calling for a come-to-Jesus meeting. You could say it’s an intervention. The North American church needs help desegregating, as there remain black and white churches. Put away from me your community days and pulpit swaps, your website’s stock photos of “diversity” and church signs with the obligatory message: “All are […]

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Are You Asking For Trouble?

What has the North American church gotten itself into? Known more for infighting, schisms and splits, the focus has largely been on doctrinal beliefs and buildings. But what about the church as the very real body of Christ, as baptized believers? There are 215 somebodies buried in shallow graves behind a Jackson, Mississippi jail and […]

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The Raceless Gospel is graduating!

On May 8th at 2 p.m., I will graduate with a Doctor of Ministry degree from Wesley Theological Seminary during a formal ceremony at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. From The Daily Race to The Raceless Gospel Initiative at Good Faith Media, this vision of a raceless “kin-dom” has come a long way. […]

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A Watered- down Gospel

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 […]

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Baptism is the way to the undivided “kin-dom” that is coming

My heart is with my siblings in Ukraine. Russia is attacking their home, starting a war during a global pandemic. I pray for their peace and protection. I mourn for the lives lost to the vanities of war and power’s greed. I pray that we will be able to see ourselves without either. Masks on, […]

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