Traveling Mercies

February 28, 2012.Reading time 5 minutes.

“Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the depths of the sea. On frequent journeys, I have faced dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from […]

Woe To Race

February 27, 2012.Reading time 9 minutes.

We, and by this I mean American Christians, have made race a part of our Christian faith formation, a part of what it means to be American because in order to be American, you have to be placed in a socially color- coded category. To be America is to be racialized, renamed as a red/ yellow/ brown/ beige/ […]

In the Beginning

February 26, 2012.Reading time 1 minute.

In the beginning, God created colored people. And the tree of knowledge was full of stereotypes and prejudices, Which we tasted of liberally. But who was the snake and what did it say to us? What was the result of our indulgence, that we now walk different paths and at different times in the cool […]

The Apostles of Race Creed

February 25, 2012.Reading time 5 minutes.

Part of my goal when writing about the race-less life is to undermine the meaning and worth of race, its practices and its ability to socially color and in turn, recreate human beings, to express a perspective that demonstrates our idolatry to race and finally to hopefully turn our eyes away from it and toward […]