For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
If we love persons according to race, if our love is racially prescribed and motivated, a love that is demonstrated according to the social coloring of skin, then we do not love as God loves. We do not love with the love of Christ. I would go so far as to say that we do […]
Read MoreThis morning, I attended a remarkable lecture at Wesley Theological Seminary where Dr. Joerg Rieger, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, the Wendland-Cook Endowed Professor of Constructive Theology at SMU Perkins School of Theology and author of several books to include Christ and Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times, served as the guest lecturer […]
Read More“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit and that Christ may dwell in […]
Read More“It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.” ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King’s words are often employed when there is talk of Christ’s Church and its lack of cultural diversity in worship. It is said as a matter of fact and there is […]
Read More“… there is plenty of Christianity that cannot solve our problem either– little, petty, hide-bound Christianity, an escape from life, utterly irrelevant to the vast issues that confront mankind.” ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick, A Great Time to be Alive: Sermons on Christianity in Wartime, 1944 Fosdick writes these words in his first sermon in this collection of […]
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The Raceless Gospel 