Race does more with us than we do with it and I have surmised today that it is useless. For what progress can we make with a belief that holds everyone back, including those it claims to elevate and empower? What can truly be gained in utilizing a worldview that focuses on the external appearance of humanity to the […]
I’ve got something on the inside, working on the outside. Oh, what a change in my life! I’ve got something on the inside, working on the outside. Oh, what a change in my life! My convictions regarding race and its social power/lessness are grounded in my life and relationship with Jesus Christ. It is because […]
Tomorrow will be the last day of my leadership training with the Foundations of Christian Leadership program and I am grateful for the numerous opportunities to assess, reflect upon and discuss this unique and special ministry that I have been entrusted with. My colleagues have truly been gifts and I am so grateful for their […]
“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. […]
My experience at Chautauqua ended with an opportunity to speak with the leadership as well as a major donor of the New Clergy Program. We had shared our experiences of racism with our colleagues earlier in the week and afterwards persons came to each of us to offer what they thought was the best response to the numerous […]