Not Both/ And

I don’t like to leave things out and certainly not people.  The former, I write a list for; the latter, I say a prayer for.  Like so many others, I know how it feels to be left out and seemingly forgotten.  Maybe I should prayerfully put myself on the list. Likewise, we try to make […]

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Study on diversity in churches reports lingering inequality

This is the finding of a recent study conducted by researchers at Baylor University, the University of Southern California and the University of Chicago. The study , “United by Faith? Race/Ethnicity, Congregational Diversity, and Explanations of Racial Inequality,” was published in the journal Sociology of Religion.  As you can imagine, it has gotten some people talking […]

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A God Big Enough

“No one is ever really at ease in facing what we call ‘life’ and ‘death’ without religious faith.  The trouble with many people today is that they have not found a God big enough for modern needs.  While their experience of life has grown in a score of directions and their mental horizons have been […]

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See What I’m Saying

Colorblind.  Post- racial.  It seems that most of us can’t see it or say it. Or, we cannot un-see people and not say things without the paradigm of race.  It is what we know and how we’ve always known each other. We don’t want to rock the boat or as I would suggest, get of […]

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The Truth You Already Know

Let me begin by saying that this is not a suggestion or even advice.  I am only going to write the obvious truth that we choose to ignore.  We really do know better. And while our reasons vary as to why we continue to lift up the social construct of race as a source of […]

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