The National Day of Racial Healing Seeks Answers to How We Heal From the Effects of Racism

January 21, 2025.Reading time 6 minutes.

Today is the ninth annual National Day of Racial Healing (NDORH). This year’s theme is “How We Heal” and seeks to address the effects of racism. Working to create a sense of belonging and shared connection, participants are invited to learn about each other’s backgrounds, cultures, perspectives and lived experiences. The theme comes from the president and […]

Abolishing Racism: Creating a Future without Race

December 31, 2024.Reading time 1 minute.

You’re invited! Tell them I sent you. It’s a one- day conference, a virtual event, and an opportunity to imagine a world without racism. My colleagues and I all think that it requires a future without race. In a world where the concept of “race” continues to permeate our societies and shape our perceptions, the […]

The Search for Common Ground Continues: The Journey to Somebodiness with Howard Thurman

September 29, 2024.Reading time 7 minutes.

From the militant steps of Harriet Tubman to the mystical pace of Howard Thurman, these ancestors balance the raceless gospel out. Strident and deeply spiritual, they bear witness to self- emancipation lived out, finding common ground within and then walking it out. Howard Thurman offers a vision and a model of “radical inclusion” lived out. […]

“Take Me to the Water”: The Raceless Gospel for a Washed- Up Church

February 29, 2024.Reading time 20 minutes.

Starlette, a baptism evangelist and minor poet—sent to you neither by her own will nor human manipulations but by way of troubled waters, moved by the Spirit groaning due to a prolonged laboring for a new humanity, for a “kin-dom” that is coming. Asking parenthetically, “Why aren’t we reborn yet? Why aren’t we there yet? […]

“Take Me to the Water” Takes a Deep Dive into Baptismal Identity

October 31, 2023.Reading time 8 minutes.

“Ours is a world dry with injustice, hatred, and ongoing racialized terror that limits not only the flourishing of minoritized persons, but all of us. Starlette Thomas calls us back to the refreshing, revolutionary waters of baptism. What identity will define and order our lives together? Starlette Thomas may indeed convince us that centering our […]