For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
In an article titled “Riots, Slave States, and Kool-Aid: Race Talk After the Election,” the website offers a review of some of the responses to the re-election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. May the Lord grant us peace and understanding during this time of seeming economic uncertainty and political disappointment, remembering that God’s […]
Read MoreAllan Boesak, co- author of Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism, recently brought this image to my attention. I was in attendance at Howard University’s School of Divinity’s 96th Annual Alumni Convocation for which he and Curtiss DeYoung were the guest speakers. Boesak shared with us his insights on race, South African apartheid […]
Read MoreToday, on Facebook, someone posted this acronym: V.O.T.E.–Victory Over The Enemy. It is messages like these that I seek to address and undo through my writings. The Church must be Christ’s Church but it seems that this election has revealed that there is a Church of the Democrats, a Church of the Republicans and a […]
Read MoreThough the Democratic Party is represented by a donkey, its candidate should not be confused with the one who entered Jerusalem triumphantly on one. I begin with this statement because it seems that I cannot say often enough the necessity of separating our racial allegiances from our profession of faith. It is necessary that the […]
Read MoreThis morning, I attended a remarkable lecture at Wesley Theological Seminary where Dr. Joerg Rieger, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, the Wendland-Cook Endowed Professor of Constructive Theology at SMU Perkins School of Theology and author of several books to include Christ and Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times, served as the guest lecturer […]
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The Raceless Gospel 