For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
With an increase in the surveillance of bodies socially colored black, I feel it necessary to talk about the valuation of the human body and the Church’s role in such a conversation. With some persons feeling it necessary to call the police as if a customer service agency for humans they deem damaged due the social construct of […]
Read More“The problem is solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.” | Ludwig Wittgenstein This past week, I had the opportunity to attend the Baptist World Alliance’s Annual Gathering in Zurich, Switzerland and to present a paper as a member of the Commission on Racial and Gender Justice. […]
Read More“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 […]
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