The 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 […]
This week, I was in Decatur, Georgia and presented at ChurchWorks, a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship conference for ministers of spiritual formation and education. I, along with several others, spoke about the theological rumblings and ruminations of our shared ministry with Christ. I will present part one of the message here: “Jesus loves the little children/ […]
“We need the courage to create ourselves daily.” ~ Maya Angelou Race is finished. It is done with us. It has nothing new to add but has concluded that we are more of the same. We are all just colored people. Race stereotypes us, box us up, prepackaged us long before we were born. It […]
“History is made by those who break the rules.” ~ An author unknown If you want to get me fired up, just start talking about how helpless we are in terms of race. If you want to get me energized, just start telling me what I can’t do because of racism, prejudice and stereotypes. Start […]
At a Tedx in Johannesburg, Gillian Schutte says that we need to talk about racism and she begins with her son. A powerful testimony and witness of confronting and challenging the construct of whiteness, the indoctrination of race and the development of empathy, I very much appreciate her work and would talk to her about […]