Let’s Talk About the End of Race

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 […]

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Race’s Assembly Line

“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 […]

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Leaving Captivity

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 […]

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Do Something About Race

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. […]

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Post- Racial America: Why We Can’t Get Past Race

There aren’t many fans of the word post- racial.  It seems utopian for some, unrealistic for others.  And from what I hear and read, it seems almost mythical.  It’s magic talk and there isn’t a huge market for this fairy dust.  We just cannot even imagine the characters for such a story.  Because exactly what […]

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