Study on diversity in churches reports lingering inequality

This is the finding of a recent study conducted by researchers at Baylor University, the University of Southern California and the University of Chicago. The study , “United by Faith? Race/Ethnicity, Congregational Diversity, and Explanations of Racial Inequality,” was published in the journal Sociology of Religion.  As you can imagine, it has gotten some people talking […]

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See What I’m Saying

Colorblind.  Post- racial.  It seems that most of us can’t see it or say it. Or, we cannot un-see people and not say things without the paradigm of race.  It is what we know and how we’ve always known each other. We don’t want to rock the boat or as I would suggest, get of […]

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The Truth You Already Know

Let me begin by saying that this is not a suggestion or even advice.  I am only going to write the obvious truth that we choose to ignore.  We really do know better. And while our reasons vary as to why we continue to lift up the social construct of race as a source of […]

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Creator of Color

I remain flabbergasted by the fact that race determines so much of our lives, that we have given it so much meaning, that we have given it so much of our meaning.  The social coloring of skin tells us who we are, what we can do and what we mean.  But, not only that.  Race […]

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View From the Top of the Box

I have been thinking about why I think the way that I do about race.  I am well- read on the historical origins of the social construct of race and current practice of its progeny, here being prejudice, stereotypes, white privilege and racial profiling.  I hear the stories and have been a part of my […]

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