For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
We are prepared to live and to live life to the fullest. We are told to push life to the limits, to do and be all that we can be. We are encouraged to live life in the fast lane because you only live once. “Do it while you can. Do it while you’re young. […]
Read More“The Jews then said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?” | John 2.18, NRSV No bunny or top hat. Nothing up his sleeves. Miracles are not to be confused with magic shows. Turning water into wine, Jesus has performed his first miracle because his mother tells him to. In John […]
Read More“We begin our Lenten journey addressed by the remarkable assurance that the God who summons us in is the God who goes along with us.” | Walter Brueggeman, A Way Other Than Our Own: Devotions for Lent Where is Jesus going? To the cross. We know the way that he must take. We are so […]
Read More“The cross is a contradiction to the world and pertains to public policy just as it pertains to personal well- being.” | Walter Brueggeman, A Way Other Than Our Own: Devotions for Lent “Give us a sign!” This is the demand not only of the Pharisees in Jesus’ day but in our own. While it […]
Read More“I imagine Lent for you and for me as a great departure from the greedy, anxious anti-neighborliness of our economy, a great departure from our exclusionary politics that fears the other, a great departure from self-indulgent consumerism that devours creation. And then an arrival in a new neighborhood, because it is a gift to be […]
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The Raceless Gospel 