Last week, I wrote about why the church doesn’t talking about race. I listed the excuses that we make, which include: “It’s too hard.” “It’s too sad.” “It’s been too long.” And, “I didn’t do it.” Talking about the end of anything, whether good or bad, can be difficult. It can even cause anxiety as […]
“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages according to the labor of each. 9 For we […]
“Not all flesh is alike, but there is one flesh for human beings, another for animals, another for birds and another for fish.” ~ First Corinthians 15.39, NRSV Paul begins chapter fifteen by reminding the members of the church at Corinth of how Christ fulfills Scripture and of the many times and number of people […]
Caged. That’s what I feel like when I begin to talk about life lived according to race. My voice even starts to constrict and my palms start to sweat. Sure, I can move but only so far and I can see and be seen but my vantage point is very limited. My world is shaped […]
Race is so hard for us to comprehend, so difficult for us to get our heads around and our lives out of. It’s sticky and it has gotten on everything that we come into contact with. We have been talking about race for hundreds of years and still, we cannot get it off of us. […]