I grew up in the South. I was born in Pensacola, Florida but spent most of my teenage years in Foley, Alabama with my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. We didn’t have a street or a road; instead, we lived on trail. It was named Thomas Trail because our family owned the land at the end of […]
We often say that a picture is worth one thousand words. Well, why is that we have so few in our vocabulary when it comes to race? So few images of cultures different from our own, so few ways of seeing each other outside of race and its stereotypes? Sadly, we really do believe that […]
“Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” ~ Exodus 20.17, HCSB “All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, […]
“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 […]
Racism, prejudice and stereotypes are a problem. Most, if not all persons, would agree that they produce more conflicts than resolutions, offer more questions than answers. We need only watch the evening news or visit a news website to hear about yet another incident of violence incited by race. But, no matter how many times […]