For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
I recently completed my final report for the Louisville Institute. These generous partners in ministry awarded me a grant to study the sociopolitical construct of race, Clarence Jordan’s Koinonia Farm and why persons fear Christian community. I visited Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia. It was Clarence’s “demonstration plot.” He would create his own world, challenging […]
Read MoreIt’s almost 11 a.m., that holy hour that is concentrated with our hubris, when the worship services are but a reflection of our preferences, when the pews are filled with the people we are most comfortable with. It’s almost 11 a.m. on this fine Sunday morning where people dress up or down and then sit […]
Read MoreKatharine Gerbner writes in Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World that before there was the ideology of white supremacy, there existed what she calls “Protestant Supremacy.” Gerbner writes about Anglicanism in Barbados what was also true in America, “The Anglican Church in Barbados was exclusive, the domain of slave owners and […]
Read MoreIt is so tempting to close ourselves off after deep wounding, after failed attempts to come together as people of faith. We might ask ourselves, “Why isn’t this working out?” Still, we must believe that God is at work, that while we want to throw our hands up in despair, God’s hands are still in. All […]
Read MoreThis is not what I had in mind. When I became a Christian, I though that I joined a family, that we all loved each other. Have you ever tried to get all the Christians in a room? I thought we were a body. But, not just any body– Christ’s. Far from his truth, we […]
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The Raceless Gospel 