For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“Do not be anxious about anything.” ~Philippians 4.6 For the past few months, I have been taking a class designed to equip new and prospective leaders for pastoral ministry. Like most who discern a call to pastor, I have approached the possibility in disbelief and yet it seems unsurprisingly inevitable. In our last class, the […]
Read MoreAfter a conversation with a friend this week about the blog, I agreed with her that it was necessary to expound upon why I seek to live life without race. I briefly shared with her my childhood and formative experiences in a hyper- racialized home environment. From conception, my life has been determined by race. […]
Read MoreRace should not be confused with God though it is often an unconscious and easily accessible substitute, our go- to god and our alternative deity. Our faith in race is one passed down to us as a supplement to our Christianity, evident in the unspoken belief that there are scenarios in America’s racialized society that […]
Read MoreRace does not exist. It is but a construct of our social imagination; a single mental image that is perceived as real and that we have agreed to bring into our reality. It is but a dream filled with mythical characters like the mammy, brute, Jezebel, and Uncle Tom. It is a place where people become colors– black, […]
Read MoreThomas Merton (1915-1968), a Trappist monk and the author of more than seventy books wrote: “The life of the exterior man is a life of automatism, of unconsciously dictated thought and action, of mechanical conformity to the standards and prejudices of those around us– or, for that matter, of mechanical and compulsive revolt against them. For […]
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