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 […]
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. […]
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? […]
“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 […]
Race is a sociopolitical construct, a long word and a long way of saying that human beings made it up. Not revelation brought down from a mountain like Moses in Exodus but it was built into a system of oppression from the tip of our tongues up, which is why I talk it down and […]