The North American Church Needs to “Wade in the Water”

January 16, 2024.Reading time 9 minutes.

Wade in the water Wade in the water, children Wade in the water God’s gonna’ trouble the water Except we get in the water, and it doesn’t seem to trouble us that the North American church is still segregated, that there is a Black and White Church, that we remain divided over American chattel slavery, […]

Take Me to the Water Offers a Raceless Gospel to the Segregated Church

November 9, 2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Take Me to the Water”: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church is the newest release from Nurturing Faith Books and marks a turning point for the raceless gospel. Take Me to the Water offers a critical look at baptism, the rite of passage meant to signify new birth, and the segregation of […]

The Raceless Gospel Podcast Does Bodywork

July 19, 2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

From an initial blog post more than ten years ago to a podcast, I have written words that have created a world. Each word is foundational, building upon the other and I cannot wait to stand on top of the rubble of race. To be sure, this raceless world, it is a “kin-dom” coming, the […]

Season 2 of the Raceless Gospel podcast is coming this summer!

June 17, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

The doors of the church are open, open on Sundays but closed on most others. Closed mouth to some conversations. “No comment.” Closed eyes to some views. “See no evil.” Closed off to some bodies that we recreate as “other” as if a human being can be something other than that. “Hands off. Don’t touch […]

Dead in the water: Raceless Identity as Baptismal Identity

May 4, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

Racism is often confused with race. So, when I say raceless, I am not suggesting that racism is not real. The sociopolitical construct that supports our hate is a fallacy but racism, prejudice, stereotyping and their progeny are facts and proof of an unequal reality. We are not post- racial or past this, not in […]