This is America

Recently, 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. […]

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Race Habits

“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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Race and reconciliation do not go together

“16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. 17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! […]

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Race: The gospel according to our flesh

What did he look like?  What culture does he represent?  Forget the nails, let me see the social coloring of his skin?  Yes, I will accept him; he can come in now.  Because Jesus has to be one of us.  We have flipped the expectation and it does not matter our personal relationship with him.  […]

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Be of Service

“2 The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, 4 got up from the table, took off his outer robe, […]

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