“Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that the Son of Man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist but others Elijah and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ He said to them, ‘But who do you say that I […]
One’s race does not determine character or temperament. “The nineteenth century was obsessed with the idea that it was race which explained the character of peoples. The notion that traits of temperament and intelligence are inborn in races and only superficially changed by environment or education was enough to blind the dominant (so- called) whites.” […]
“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.” ~ St. Augustine “We only become what we are by […]
The words of race, those words don’t belong to me. They were not picked out specifically for me and I certainly did not ask for them by name. I did not ask to be called by or addressed as black. I would never introduce myself as such as this is not how I want to […]
I am fully aware of the Church in America’s historical response to race, racism, slavery, segregation and the like: silent acceptance and an unapologetic, unexamined, uncalculated assimilation and application of its social truths into our theology, Christology, pneumatology, eschatology and ecclesiology. We have allowed race to retell the creation narrative, racism to dismember Christ’s body, cultural […]