Faith seeking understanding– without race
More than a year into the pandemic, people are making tough decisions to leave jobs that don’t work for them, to leave relationships that are not healthy and mutually beneficial, to leave churches that don’t serve their faith well. They are rethinking their life’s ambitions and choosing to do it now, more convinced than ever […]
Read MoreAs many of us gear up for summer vacations with flip flops, sunglasses and sunscreen, I want to remind us of the journey offered in books. Words can take us places. Within their pages are invitations to journey not just to distant and magical lands but to places closer to home, to undiscovered holy sites […]
Read MoreMany of us see ourselves as a colored person. We are black people, white people, red people, brown people, yellow people, beige people. Well, maybe the first two are true. The color wheel doesn’t turn beyond black and white for much of America. Instead, much more of American society and even other parts of […]
Read More“In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, ‘Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising and have come to pay him homage.’ When King Herod heard this, […]
Read MoreThe title of this post sounds like the beginning of a bad joke or a nursery rhyme but apparently, Jesus and Santa are in the same socially constructed race. According to Fox News host Megyn Kelly, they are both ‘white.’ Really? Actually, Jews are not a race; they are a nation of people. And […]
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The Raceless Gospel 