For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“I’d rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.” ~ Psalm 84.10, NRSV Pastor Makeda Pennycooke, an African American pastor at Freedom House Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, recently sent an email to church volunteers that has caused some persons to rethink their understanding of the […]
Read MoreWriting that she now understands the Rev. Dr. William Jones’ book Is God a white racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology, University of Pennsylvania professor and contributing editor to Religion Dispatches, Dr. Anthea Butler, joins him in calling God a “white racist” after a not guilty verdict was handed down in the trial of George Zimmerman over the […]
Read More“If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I […]
Read MoreThe 1960s campaign to integrate churches needs to be remembered and re-examined says the author of “The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation.” Stephen R. Haynes shares with readers another facet of the civil rights movement on Duke Divinity School’s Faith & Leadership blog.
Read MoreWhy are the following statements true? “By and large, the people who have been the racists of the modern world have also been Christians or the heirs of Christian civilization. Among large numbers of Christians, racism has been the other faith or one of the other faiths” (George D. Kelsey, Racism and the Christian Understanding […]
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The Raceless Gospel 