A Preacher Talks About Race and the Obama Presidency

I read this interview on the Patheos website* and thought that you too will benefit from its insight and courageous truth. The Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson, president of Auburn Theological Seminary, and the venerable Rev. Dr. James Forbes, the first African American pastor of the famed Riverside Church, sat down to have a one-on-one reflection […]

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Racial Formation

No, this will not be about Beyonce’s new “Formation” video or its continued controversy.  If you are interested in a really thoughtful, perhaps too thoughtful interpretation of the song, click here.  If not, keep reading. We talk a lot about what race says about us and others.  What we do not discuss as much are […]

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White Privilege Glasses

Deadlines from seemingly every area of my life and stormy weather present a dual problem as to timeliness and motivation.  While this was not on my list of things to do,  I simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share this article with you.  Published by the Huffington Post, “See Racism. See John See Racism. […]

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Numb

How do you feel?  How do experience your self, your life and that of others?  How do you know that it is real and exact and true? And how can you feel when race gets in between us and our skin?  Talk about getting under our skin.  Race separates us from our bodies and picks […]

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Use Big Words

Race is small talk when discussing our humanity.  Focusing on the texture of our hair, the shape of our eyes and the social coloring of our skin is comparable to talking about the weather and the menu.  While we do introduce ourselves based on our appearance, looking at the physical appearance as a means of […]

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