Tongue tied

February 11, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

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 […]

Ralph Northam’s yearbook photo is actually a group picture

February 1, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has admitted to wearing a racist costume and has apologized. In his 1984 medical school yearbook, there appears someone dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan and another in blackface. Tonight, persons are calling for his resignation. While I take issue with his decision to wear either “costume” […]

What’s in the melting pot?

January 30, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

Recently, journalist Tom Brokaw was called out on comments he made on Meet the Press where he suggested that Hispanics were not doing enough to assimilate. He has since apologized but the conversations continue online, on buses and in taxis, at barbershops and salons, in breakrooms and over dinner as to what he meant and […]

The Color of Compromise: Jemar Tisby’s new book aims to talk about the difference race has made on American Christianity

January 25, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

His book arrived in the mail yesterday. I must confess that it is one of forty books that I have ordered in recent weeks. New home, new bookshelves, I am creating a library to support my future work on the raceless gospel. I want to be surrounded by these conversation partners. I have also decided […]

What are we talking about when we talk about race?

January 18, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

We’ve got to come back to ourselves. We’ve got to take more than a few steps back and we will have to step on more than a few toes in the process. But, let’s begin to walk it back. Let’s go back to the beginning. Return to the first Word that is certain to be […]

The Raceless Gospel

Category: Race