Faith seeking understanding– without race
“Accept one another, then, just as Christ has accepted you.” | Romans 15.7, NIV Spawned by reports of the current American president’s remarks on immigration, which included speaking of Haiti and the entire continent of Africa (i.e. some 54 countries and two de facto territories) in terms unbecoming of a human being– much less a president, […]
Read MoreTrayvon Martin. Most Americans know his name and the story of his death. But, now his name is strangely associated with Halloween. Apparently, some persons think that it is acceptable to dress like a dead child and in blackface, no less. I cannot even begin to describe the callousness of those who think it good fun […]
Read MoreThere is more to be seen of you and me than what has been thought visible and thereby obvious. There is more to who we are. In fact, we are quite literally scratching and picking on the surface of our humanity when we only look at the social coloring of skin. We can’t move past […]
Read MoreLet’s keep the conversation going. I love resources like these as they offer to those who are journeying with me a look at what often informs my understanding and writings on race and its progeny. Tiffany Jana talks about social privileges. She challenges some of the assumptions that come along with these cultural biases […]
Read MoreRace is a modern invention of the European Enlightenment: “European Enlightenment thinkers retained the Greek ideal of reason, as well as this reason’s categorical function of discriminating between the cultured (now called the ‘civilized) and the ‘barbarian’ (the ‘savage’ or the ‘primitive’). It can be argued, in fact, that the Enlightenment’s declaration of itself as […]
Read More
The Raceless Gospel 