For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
A dear ministry friend, Rev. Trisha Miller Manarin, included a section of this writing in a sacred work that she has asked me to participate in. The words met me right where I was and sat with me. I pray that they might do the same for you. Don’t struggle and strive so, my child. […]
Read More“We are symbols and inhabit symbols.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson It appears that the Confederate flag will not rise again at least not above government buildings in South Carolina. In a final vote of 94 to 20, the State House of Representatives decided to remove the flag. Recently associated with Dylann Roof, a 21 year […]
Read MoreSoong- Chan Rah talks about the strengths and weaknesses of a transcendent imagination, exceptionalism, the racialization and nationalization of the image of God at Wheaton College. Let us think more deeply about the impact of the social construct of race on our theology and anthropology.
Read MoreThis morning, I learned of a seventh African American- led church set ablaze. The cause for the burning of Mount Zion AME church in Greeleyville, South Carolina is still under investigation. But, before the smoke signal of this latest burning reached the news, six others in Florida, Tennessee, North and South Carolina were struck with […]
Read MoreThe recent murder of nine church members to include the pastor, the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina has hurt me deeply. I am aching in places I cannot touch and for which I don’t believe that there is a salve on the market. It is one thing to […]
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The Raceless Gospel 