Category: Race and the Old Testament

The Exodus of Race

.Reading time 6 minutes.

“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go in to Pharaoh and say to him: This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews says: Let my people go, so that they may worship Me.  But if you refuse to let (them) go and keep holding them, then the Lord’s hand will bring a severe […]

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A Prepackaged Existence

.Reading time 3 minutes.

God is not a part of race and does not give it meaning. God does not lend His support to the work of race and race cannot use God as a reference despite our attempts to locate race in sacred Scripture. God wants nothing to do with race and it is my mission to create […]

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Ten Things Your ‘Race’ Cannot Tell You

.Reading time 3 minutes.

1. Race cannot tell you the purpose of your life.  The social color of your skin is not a crystal ball, a sign of good fortune or an omen of back luck.  The prophet Jeremiah records the voice of the Lord saying, “I know the plans I have for you, plans for your welfare, not for […]

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Made In Whose Image?

.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals, all the earth and the creatures that crawl on the earth.” ~Genesis 1.26 My husband and I have not been living in our new apartment a […]

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Trapped In History

.Reading time 7 minutes.

“We are trapped in history and history is trapped in us.” ~ James Baldwin I love history so much so that while in college, I seriously considered making it my major.  But, my desire to study history was not rooted in a love for the past but in my ignorance of it– both social and cultural but more importantly, personal.  […]

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