Faith seeking understanding– without race
It’s almost 11 a.m., that holy hour that is concentrated with our hubris, when the worship services are but a reflection of our preferences, when the pews are filled with the people we are most comfortable with. It’s almost 11 a.m. on this fine Sunday morning where people dress up or down and then sit […]
Read More“We need a spirit- filled life that is capable of combatting the corrosive ideologies of our age. Only when the church lives out its original calling, as a contrast community and foretaste of God’s coming reign, is there hope for the world.” Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People, Charles E. Moore One […]
Read MoreToday, persons will remember the historic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge that occurred fifty years ago on Sunday, March 7, 1965. Already a movie, Selma will be a buzzword and a hash tag. It will be a trending topic today and perhaps for a couple more after that. We will wear t- shirts and […]
Read More“Healing the racial divide in the nation will take the Church’s leadership,” says Bishops Harry Jackson and T.D. Jakes who are the leaders of a new attempt to position the church as a source of healing and reconciliation in matters of race. Their website features a letter to President Barack Obama, “Practical Steps Toward Racial […]
Read MoreA University of Alabama sorority is being accused of racism after an article is published by its student- run paper, The Crimson White. In “The Final Barrier: 50 years later, segregation still exists,” it is alleged that several sororities prevented women from pledging because of the social construct of race. Despite being institutions of learning, some campuses remained […]
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The Raceless Gospel 