A Confession: God’s Power
God’s power is not white. God’s power is not black. God’s power is not beige. God’s power is not brown. God’s power is not red. God’s power is not yellow. God’s power is God’s power.
Read MoreCategory: Race and the Divine Image
Acceptance
“Accept one another, then, just as Christ has accepted you.” | Romans 15.7, NIV Spawned by reports of the current American president’s remarks on immigration, which included speaking of Haiti and the entire continent of Africa (i.e. some 54 countries and two de facto territories) in terms unbecoming of a human being– much less a president, […]
Read MoreQuestioning Race during Advent
Christ has come! This first Sunday of Advent reminds us that power was found in a cradle– not a crown. Like persons in Jesus’s day, we are guilty of looking for him in the wrong places and among the wrong people. As outlined in his stories, Jesus came to rearrange and change the order of […]
Read MoreMaking God in the Image of Whiteness
How did the invisible, immortal and eternal God become a blonde haired, blue eyed socially colored white man? Who approved of this gross social reduction and theological diminishing of the Divine? And why do we continue to go along with it? Why do we worship whiteness as if the God of the Christian faith? Why do […]
Read MoreBefore God Was White: The Rumblings of a Race-less Theology
“God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ~ John 4.24, NRSV Halloween is over and yet, it seems nearly impossible to remove the mask of whiteness from the face of God. Now a spooky, to be avoided, death- wielding deity, this socially colored white God has it in […]
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The Raceless Gospel 