“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” ~Friedrich Neitzsche Race is a monster. It’s not like the ones that hide under our beds or in our closets. Its features are not ghastly though it has been known to make its victims appear such. Race is […]
Do we know for certain what of ourselves can be attributed to race? What is distinctly racial about us as human beings? What is human about being a member of a race? Is our humanity defined by our race? And are we moreso racial beings than human beings as there are descriptions of socially colored […]
It is a difficult task, searching the self for answers that don’t belong. They were perhaps left with us in haste with the thought that we would return them or throw them away later. An experience of prejudice as either witness or victim, the use of a racial slur at the dinner table that just […]
We, and by this I mean American Christians, have made race a part of our Christian faith formation, a part of what it means to be American because in order to be American, you have to be placed in a socially color- coded category. To be America is to be racialized, renamed as a red/ yellow/ brown/ beige/ […]
“So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.” ~Isaiah 59.19, King James Version Today, a standard is a measurement by which all […]