For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“Calls are essentially questions. They aren’t questions you necessarily need to answer outright; they are questions to which you need to respond, expose yourself and kneel before. You don’t want an answer you can put in a box and set on a shelf. You want a question that will become a chariot to carry you […]
Read MoreI shared a meditation at a Maundy Thursday service last night titled “Do as I do.” It is a command that highlights the disconnect between our words and our actions. We know and say what is right but so often, we do not do what is right. We point out the rule while side- stepping the practice of […]
Read MoreYesterday, I shared a message with the congregation titled, “Costly Obedience.” Unpacking the well- known hymn recorded in Philippians 2.5-11, I invited listeners to consider again the price that Christ paid for our sins. It was a costly obedience because he was obedient to the point of death– not obedient for personal gain, not agreeable […]
Read MoreI am at a meeting of clergy for three days of specialized training in interim ministry. Day one focuses on theories. On the second day, the facilitator offered a few tools and way too many personal stories. But, when we began a discussion about power and he wanted to move to his next slide, the group of mostly European Americans […]
Read More“Mirror, mirror on the wall… Whiteness is the fairest of them all.” What do we need or expect to see of ourselves that calls for the social construct of race? What of our humanity is made visible, evident, real when we become colored people? What can we not see without the lens of race? What […]
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The Raceless Gospel 