For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“Jesus loves the little children/ all the children of world…” Children are being separated from their parents at America’s borders. The most recent story is of a mother who was breastfeeding her daughter. She is taken into custody and her mother is placed in handcuffs. “Zero tolerance,” they say. “We are just following the law,” they tell […]
Read More“Take up your bed and walk” (John 5.8). “Do you want to be made whole” (John 5.6)? “Where are your accusers” (John 8.10)? Jesus demonstrates time and again that our faith is to be engaged, pondered, questioned. Jesus requires buy in. We are not simply called to follow his instructions, and this is not discipleship […]
Read MoreI am tired. Worn out, worn down, worn thin by stories of racialized abuse, bias, bullying, harassment, hatred, mistreatment, misplaced vindictiveness, the continued willful ignorance of the pain and suffering of persons socially colored other than white, the choice to not engage. Because it is more important to be our “race’s” keeper. It is hard to […]
Read MoreRecently, the news has covered incidents involving African American persons being physically and verbally assaulted, bullied, disturbed, falsely arrested, harassed and questioned for doing things considered normal in any other context or culture, that is, barbecuing, eating, shopping, sitting on one’s porch, sleeping, vacationing. Persons would argue that there is an increase in such episodes. […]
Read More“Change your racial habits and you change the way you see the world.” These are the words of Jonathan Wilson- Hartgrove. They are from his most recent book Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion. In stunning language, Wilson- Hartgrove writes of the internalized arrangement that socially colored white people must make in order to […]
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