Why I am so adamant when it comes to my position on race and its position behind me? Why can’t race represent me or introduce me? Why do its prejudices not speak for my neighbor, the stranger or the immigrant? Why can’t its stereotypes inform my understanding of human beings? I’m glad that you asked. […]
I am still surprised when I attend conferences with other Christians and the gathering is multicultural that the social construct of race still dictates our behavior, that believers of the God who “so loved the world” self- segregate though we have come together for a common purpose and goal for the same Lord in service […]
Some one asked the question, “How do you eat an elephant?” Some one else answered, “One bite at a time.” I don’t know who eats elephant or thinks that they can eat it all. I never have and don’t think that I would have the taste for one. Who wrote this menu anyway? Still, for […]
There is so much talk about our inability to be post- racial. Just the mention of the world will cause persons to recount the various deeds of racism and to conclude that we are tragically bound to our flesh and its attributes, that we are the social coloring of skin. These persons speak of race’s […]
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again an again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate […]