Category: Race and Christian Identity

Three Ways Our Belief In Race Compromises Our Christian Witness

.Reading time 9 minutes.

“Racism has used the American church to battle against God’s will and purpose for his people. Racism has accomplished this goal by encouraging numerous rationalizations for the church’s position on slavery and racial discrimination, positions that are inconsistent with the message of the Bible.” ~Norman Anthony Peart, Separate No More: Understanding and Developing Racial Reconciliation […]

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Becoming New: Racial Formation and Baptismal Identity

.Reading time 4 minutes.

“What are we to do with a church that speaks to people on the basis of their gender or race, all the while baptizing them on the basis of Galatians 3.28?” “In baptism, the text becomes Scripture for us, canon, laid on us as a new story that illumines our stories. In baptism, we are […]

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Take Me To The Water But Race Can’t Be Baptized

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Baptism is a reenactment of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  It is the mark of our mysterious rebirth, born again. Our lives are given a second beginning.  It is not simply a fresh start as the former things are no longer remembered and the person that we once were is dead, buried […]

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Was Racism in the Fine Print?

.Reading time 6 minutes.

I think about race a lot.  Not in the hopeless, self- defeating, all is lost and woe is me because “the white man’s foot is on my neck”, “this happened because I am black” kind of a way.  But, I think about race a lot when it comes to the practice of the Christian faith […]

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