For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“Community life is martyrdom by fire: it means the daily sacrifice of all of our strength and all our rights, all the claims we commonly make on life and assume to be justified. In the symbol of fire, the individual logs burn away so that, united, its glowing flames send out warmth and light and […]
Read More“All who believed were together and had all things in common…” |Acts 2.44, NRSV These past few weeks, I, along with my Young Adult Sunday School class, have been in conversation about what Christian community looks like– not in appearance but application. We don’t just want to talk about it; we want to experience it. […]
Read MoreAmerican slavery is being discussed again. But, not because African Americans brought it up. It is in the news due to debates around the removal of Confederate statues. It seems that there is a way to talk about American slavery that persons are comfortable with. If it is about honoring so- called war heroes that […]
Read MoreIn 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in Life Together, “Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate. The more clearly we learn to recognize that the ground and strength and promise of all our fellowship is in Jesus Christ […]
Read MoreWhy does the Church of the God “who so loved the world” struggle with embracing a multicultural, multiethnic community (John 3.16)? Why does the church of the Christ who commanded us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves and who commissioned us to “go and make disciples of all nations” often confine the good news of the […]
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The Raceless Gospel 