For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
What inspires our belief in race? Why do we have so much faith in this social construct? Is it because we built it that we take pride in it, that we cannot let it go? For me and I suppose so many others, race creates more questions than answers. In fact, the more that I […]
Read More“Say it loud. ‘I’m black and I’m proud.’” ~ James Brown It was 1968 and James Brown was the conductor of a chorus who sang about black pride, empowerment and self- reliance. It was a call and response of black power. And timidity was not appropriate; instead, persons were encouraged to “say it loud.” In […]
Read More“I was regretting the past and fearing the future. Suddenly my Lord was speaking: ‘My name is I AM.’ He paused. I waited. He continued. ‘When you live in the past, with its mistakes and regrets, it is hard. I am not there. My name is I WAS. When you live in the future with […]
Read More“There’s a certain learned passivity about the spiritual life that is hard to program and hard to make popular. People who give leadership in spiritual direction, the good ones, that’s basically what they’re doing: they’re trying to train us and teach us how not to be in control of our lives; to enter into what […]
Read More“How can we pray accurately for and harmoniously with the other members of God’s people? Through song: song establishes all the members of the congregation in organic relationship. The Christian recovers a sense of community and experiences the dynamics of community not through the categories of sociology but through the music of liturgy. We would […]
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The Raceless Gospel 