Category: Race

God is not Colorblind

.Reading time 3 minutes.

“But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” ~ First Samuel 16.7 God is not colorblind; to use the language is to […]

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Stepping Out of the Shadows of Race

.Reading time 7 minutes.

“This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.  If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true; but if we walk in […]

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If I Accept Race

.Reading time 2 minutes.

If I accept race, then I must deny everything that God says about me.  I must pretend as if she does not exist and that I do not have an interest in knowing her.  If I accept race, I must ignore the voice of God, calling me to awaken and become aware of Him surrounding […]

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Racial Facts of Life

.Reading time 5 minutes.

I’ve had problems with race and its socially constructed identities for a long time.  While studying the origin and purposes of race, my finger pointing turned away from people, realizing that we are its victims.  Ironically, we’ve empowered race through science and sacred Scripture.  Now, it disempowers us. We created a lie and know it […]

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Howard Thurman, Sentimental Christianity and Hatred

.Reading time 9 minutes.

“Christianity has been almost sentimental in its effort to deal with hatred in human life. It has sought to get rid of hatred by preachments, by moralizing, by platitudinous judgments. It has hesitated to analyze the basis of hatred and to evaluate it in terms of its possible significance in the lives of people possessed […]

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