Category: Race

“They always get away”: Race and the Justness of God

.Reading time 5 minutes.

“They always get away.”  This is what George Zimmerman said to the 9-1-1 operator on the night that he killed seventeen year old Trayvon Martin.  Certainly, he was having a conversation with the operator.  But, he was also repeating an assumption that is attached to a racial narrative with a long and troubling history in […]

Read More

A Second Prayer for George Zimmerman

.Reading time 5 minutes.

Not guilty. This is the verdict in the murder trial of George Zimmerman concerning the death of seventeen year old high school student Trayvon Martin.  While I am surprised that he was not found to be at fault for any of his actions on February 26, 2012, I am hopeful that this demonstration of social […]

Read More

Expectations

.Reading time 4 minutes.

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” ~ Jeremiah 29.11, KJV Expectations.  We all have them.  And if by some strange miracle we don’t, then we have plenty of expectations from others. So many that we won’t ever run […]

Read More

A Life Lived as the Sabbath

.Reading time 5 minutes.

“He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering commerce, of being yoked to toil. … Six days a week, we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath, we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul.  The […]

Read More

Faith Forward

.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Faith Forward: A Dialogue on Children, Youth and a New Kind of Christianity is the title of an upcoming book to be released this August.  What makes this book unique?  I’m in it.  I have contributed a chapter on the raceless gospel of Jesus Christ.  For more information about the book and to place an order, […]

Read More