We can’t leave the ministry of reconciliation

It is so tempting to close ourselves off after deep wounding, after failed attempts to come together as people of faith.  We might ask ourselves, “Why isn’t this working out?”  Still, we must believe that God is at work, that while we want to throw our hands up in despair, God’s hands are still in.  All […]

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When fighting, leave race out of it

“America is in trouble, and a lot of that trouble– perhaps most of it– has to do with race.” | Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America This is between you and me, us and them, us four and any more who want to join us.  Pick a side and […]

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Saying, “I don’t see color” is not the answer to racism

I am not blind and I am certainly not color- blind.  That’s not what the race-less gospel means or aims to accomplish.  I am not hoping that the world will turn a blind eye to the different physical appearances of human beings across cultures and the globe.  Please don’t tell your eyes that they are […]

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Can we live without race?

Race is about beginnings.  Do we enter the world as colored people or do we become colored people?  Chicken or the egg, social colors or creatures, which came first?  It is a necessary question if we are to rid ourselves of race.  If we are to see that we can live without it, we must […]

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Tongue tied

                    Why do I proclaim a raceless gospel when there is so much faith in race?  Why do I scribble over words in books that color- code our shared humanity and repeat the appropriate cultural designations aloud?  We are not black but African Americans.  We are […]

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