Category: Racial Formation

Race As Social Formation

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Like you, I inherited the identity that comes with the social construct of race and also the burden of its life and history.  Initially, I accepted it.  I didn’t know of any other option or way of being so I learned about being black. I read books and watched documentaries on Black history.  I took […]

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A 3- Minute Lesson on Race

.Reading time 2 minutes.

You’ve got time for this class and it is brought to you by Jenée Desmond Harris.  It is a lesson that must be learned and that bears repeating.  Harris starts from the beginning of race and no, she does not begin in the book of Genesis.  Lie #1 struck down.  Race is not that old. […]

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The Double-Minded Church: Spiritual Formation and the Impractical Theology of Race

.Reading time 6 minutes.

This week, I was in Decatur, Georgia and presented at ChurchWorks, a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship conference for ministers of spiritual formation and education.  I, along with several others, spoke about the theological rumblings and ruminations of our shared ministry with Christ.  I will present part one of the message here: “Jesus loves the little children/ […]

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New Day, New Me

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“We need the courage to create ourselves daily.” ~ Maya Angelou Race is finished.  It is done with us.  It has nothing new to add but has concluded that we are more of the same.  We are all just colored people. Race stereotypes us, box us up, prepackaged us long before we were born.  It […]

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