When A Name Is Forbidden

“When they observed the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and knew that they had been with Jesus. And since they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in response. After they had ordered them to […]

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We Are Better Than Race

“The traditional racial ideology has thus made of the black man a devil, a bogey man, the epitome of evil and badness. He is the foil that sets off the white social values lending to them an increased splendor. The use to which the black race is put is cryptically suggested by the story of […]

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Speak To The Racial Mountain

“Early in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up. Then Peter remembered and said to him , ‘Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed is withered.’  Jesus replied to them, ‘Have faith in God.’  I assure you: If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be […]

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Emptying Boxes, Unpacking Human Identity

My husband and I moved from Washington, D.C. to Mount Rainier, Maryland this past August.  I confess that we are both bibliophiles but I suppose there is no need for confession as I had nearly fifty boxes of proof.  Still, more remain stored and we would never think of giving them away.  We need them or […]

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Climbing Out of the Black Hole of Race

In physics, the black hole is “a region of spacetime for which nothing, not even light (due to its massive size), can escape.”  Apart of the theory of general relativity, anything that falls into the black hole is unable to be observed by outsiders.  The idea of this possibility was penned in a letter written by geologist John […]

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