Dear Body of Christ, We are the Body of Christ, not the race or races of Christ. We are not colors but the children of God, not stereotypes but the saints of God, not prejudicial guesses but members of a royal priesthood. I thought that we were called to walk in the spirit not after […]
I don’t like race. I think that this is obvious by now. But, what I cannot understand is why so many people do, why they choose to accept it despite all of its bad words and behavior, why we give it so much power and allow it to tell us who we and others are […]
Race is not all there is to us. We are not the social coloring of skin. We are not just epidermis. There is an inside of us that we barely address, that we rarely acknowledge that is impacted by this overwhelming focus on the external, the outside of us. Frankly, race is no part of […]
After an incident is determined to be race- related, persons sometimes say, “Racism is alive and well.” They point to the latest insult that adds to the countless injuries of race- relations. Or worse still, they point to the most recent death by fear, misunderstanding, power struggle and/or prejudice. Perhaps, with excitement or maybe disappointment, […]
Christ saved my life from stereotypes. “In Him, “I am a new creature and all things become new” (Second Corinthians 5.17). I am not more of the same old colored people, another addition to the racial group. I am not another number, added into the racial majority or minority. Christ saved my life from prejudice. […]