For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“For I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human origin; for I did not receive it from a human source, nor was I taught it but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.” ~ Galatians 1.11-12, NRSV, emphasis mine I was […]
Read More“He won’t be the brightest, perhaps, but he’ll be the whitest. And I’ll vote for that,” sings the Grammy award winning singer and songwriter. Randy Newman has written a song that addresses the issue of race in this presidential election and the debate over Barack Obama as the nation’s first African American president. The song and […]
Read More“It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.” ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King’s words are often employed when there is talk of Christ’s Church and its lack of cultural diversity in worship. It is said as a matter of fact and there is […]
Read More“Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.” ~ Stanley Hauerwas Afraid. It is the best way to describe my feelings about the conversations that are taking place, the declarations being made on social media, at […]
Read More“… there is plenty of Christianity that cannot solve our problem either– little, petty, hide-bound Christianity, an escape from life, utterly irrelevant to the vast issues that confront mankind.” ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick, A Great Time to be Alive: Sermons on Christianity in Wartime, 1944 Fosdick writes these words in his first sermon in this collection of […]
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The Raceless Gospel 