For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“We create among ourselves what we choose to notice. Once this work of self-authorship has begun, we inhabit the world we’ve created. We self- seal. We don’t notice anything except those things that confirm what we already think about who we already are… When we succeed in moving outside our normal process of self- reference […]
Read More“They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when he had stepped out of th boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him anymore, even with a chain; for he […]
Read MoreOur Many Selves is the title of Elizabeth O’Connor’s 1971 publication. A member of The Church of the Savior in Washington, D.C., she originally wrote it for the missions groups that staffed the Potter’s House, a coffee house belonging to The Church of the Savior. Inspired by the words, “radically committed minority,” found in Erich Fromm’s […]
Read MoreThomas R. Kelly writes in A Testament of Devotion, “We are trying to be several selves at once, without all of our selves being organized by a single, mastering Life within us. Each of us tends to be, not a single self, but a whole committee of selves. There is a civic self, the parental self, […]
Read MoreBefore I was born, I was prepared My father was added because he was the right color My ears were checked at birth to ensure that I was the right color Would they have put me back in the oven if I were not? My skin came out light My hair came out good […]
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The Raceless Gospel 