Category: Race and Christian Identity

Race Is Not Enough

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I am more than what the eyes can see or what they tell you I am or will be.  I am not just flesh and bone but soul and spirit, not tied to earth but bound for heaven.  I don’t just walk. More than this flesh and its members.  I have more than feet, wings […]

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Let There Be ___________

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We see no change in terms of the social construct of race and certainly in other areas of our lives because we speak no change.  We repeat our personal and limited histories with our mouths and then, we live it again and again.  We have no faith in a future without race; we cannot see […]

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I am a new creature

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In Christ, I begin again. Old time is gone, no longer to be seen again. New time is present. I need only to attend to it, to attest to it. I am here and I am right now. I am a new creature. In Christ, I begin again. A stereotype is a repeated identity. God […]

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Leaving a Controlling Identity

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“There’s a certain learned passivity about the spiritual life that is hard to program and hard to make popular. People who give leadership in spiritual direction, the good ones, that’s basically what they’re doing: they’re trying to train us and teach us how not to be in control of our lives; to enter into what […]

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An Act of Faith

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“To put an end to something is an act of faith not an act of disloyalty.”  Trish Miller, the new Mid- Atlantic Cooperative Baptist Fellowship coordinator, said these words over a lunch meeting with other CBF pastors.  Her words were unexpected.  What was a regular conversation about denominational life became what Eugene Peterson calls “a […]

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