For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
In America, many of us have a long distance relationship with persons of other cultures. Attempts have been made to describe the nature of our interactions as a melting pot (used to describe a place where persons of different cultures, beliefs and practices are mixed together) or a salad bowl (used to describe a place where cultures reside together while maintaining their distinctions). […]
Read More“It shouldn’t be special when a church calls out racism and hatred. It should be the rule, not the exception.” {Tyler Jones} “We preach that the root is sin, but it’s too uncomfortable for us to call the sin by its full name: white supremacy.” {Michael Slater} Following unflinching and stern words of rebuke against the […]
Read MoreWhile the Washington Post reports that there is a surge in hate graffiti in my area and video of the confession of Dylann Roof, accused murderer of nine members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in 2015, has been released to the public, I am praying that more stories like the ones emerging from the protest of the North Dakota pipeline […]
Read MoreIn April, I talked about the ways in which being a multicultural church is easier said than done. How I wish that our faith would be enough to bring us together. Because it is more than enough if we would allow it. Our shared relationship with Jesus Christ is enough to bring us to the Lord’s table if we would […]
Read MoreFormer President Jimmy Carter and founder of the New Baptist Covenant has long accepted the call to the ministry of reconciliation and sees the spike in race- related incidents as a call to serve this generation. Seeing race as apart of the attacks on the Obama presidency and the rise of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate […]
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The Raceless Gospel 