Faith seeking understanding– without race
Moderated by ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday, a townhall with President Donald Trump was billed as “The President and the People.” But these weren’t the people that Trump was used to, those screaming fans who meet him for his rallies and wear his red MAGA hats. Instead, undecided voters came with hard questions and his talking […]
Read More“In the decades before the American Revolution, merchants and planters became not just the benefactors of colonial society but its new masters. Slaveholders became college presidents. The wealth of the traders determined the locations and decided the fates of colonial schools. Profits from the sale and purchase of human beings paid for campuses and swelled […]
Read More“It shouldn’t be special when a church calls out racism and hatred. It should be the rule, not the exception.” {Tyler Jones} “We preach that the root is sin, but it’s too uncomfortable for us to call the sin by its full name: white supremacy.” {Michael Slater} Following unflinching and stern words of rebuke against the […]
Read MoreThe Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at the University of Oklahoma released a song (although anonymously) that the university’s president, David Boren, called “disgraceful” in a speech this afternoon. Apparently headed to a party, the young men decided to prepare themselves for a good time by chanting these words: “There will never be a ni**** SAE. […]
Read MoreThe conversation I entered into with the attendees of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s ChurchWorks this week picks back up and concludes here: I suppose that it is a matter of pride and it’s a mind game. James uses the descriptor “double- minded” when speaking of the doubter who prays[i] but this two-ness is found both in […]
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The Raceless Gospel 