“Take Me to the Water!” Conference

I will be teaching the Raceless Gospel and from my first book, Take Me to the Water: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church, at the Queen’s Foundation in Birmingham, UK. It’s three days of powerful conversations to explore scripture and the work and witness of baptism as a response to tackling […]

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The Raceless Gospel is Going to the Wild Goose Festival

The raceless gospel is going to the Wild Goose Festival in Union Grove, North Carolina this summer. Described as a family reunion, the gathering is “a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice.” *** I consider myself a race abolitionist, a dignity advocate, a community- building protagonist, a baptism evangelist. Through the work and witness […]

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

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, […]

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

“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 […]

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Tear It Down

Race is a sociopolitical construct, a long word and a long way of saying that human beings made it up. Not revelation brought down from a mountain like Moses in Exodus but it was built into a system of oppression from the tip of our tongues up, which is why I talk it down and […]

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