For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“Take up your bed and walk” (John 5.8). “Do you want to be made whole” (John 5.6)? “Where are your accusers” (John 8.10)? Jesus demonstrates time and again that our faith is to be engaged, pondered, questioned. Jesus requires buy in. We are not simply called to follow his instructions, and this is not discipleship […]
Read MoreNobody’s perfect. No church, no body of believers is perfect. “How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity” but also, how hard (Psalm 133.1). The church has never been picture perfect; there has always been a problem getting all believers in the same room for a single shot or […]
Read MoreToday, I am in Louisville, Kentucky. I am a planner but I could not have seen this coming, that my words would lead me here. But, there is certainly a since of arrival. This is where I should be and better still, this is where I belong. An x marked this spot on a map […]
Read More“And with that he breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’” | John 20.22, NIV In our capitalist system, we are prone to think that receiving is about getting. “Gimme” is the empire’s prayer response. We say, “more” as confirmation of receipt. The entitlement drips from our lips. We expect to have. We lay claim […]
Read More“Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open the doors And see all the people.” Life in community is not as simple and straightforward as this children’s rhyme would lead us to believe. There is more to the church than the building and more to the building than its members. Instead, we gather each […]
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The Raceless Gospel 