For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
It is the grim anniversary of the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Year 49. Please, spare me the golden anniversary celebration next year. I don’t want to hear what he could have been. “Gone too soon” does not begin to capture the depth of loss. He should not be gone at […]
Read MoreI am at a meeting of clergy for three days of specialized training in interim ministry. Day one focuses on theories. On the second day, the facilitator offered a few tools and way too many personal stories. But, when we began a discussion about power and he wanted to move to his next slide, the group of mostly European Americans […]
Read MoreI know that the actions committed in the name of race are real, that is makes a believer and faithful follower out of us, that we pledge allegiance to our skin and create borders around our bodies. No race- mixing. But, race does not have a real name for me. Socially constructed, I don’t want this American […]
Read More“It shouldn’t be special when a church calls out racism and hatred. It should be the rule, not the exception.” {Tyler Jones} “We preach that the root is sin, but it’s too uncomfortable for us to call the sin by its full name: white supremacy.” {Michael Slater} Following unflinching and stern words of rebuke against the […]
Read More“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself […]
Read More
The Raceless Gospel 