Don’t be a fool for race

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.” ~ Benjamin Franklin What does race do for us?  What does it do for you, your relationships, your community?  What are the benefits of our belief in race, our practice of stereotyping and segregating and judging ourselves better and others worse? The truth […]

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A Call for Living Stones

“Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” ~ I Peter 2.4-5, NRSV His name means rock.  Peter, known […]

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Remember Me?

As believers, we are described as the Body of Christ.  Many members and abilities, different cultures and languages, various talents and interests, still we are called the Body.  It does not matter the interpretation, denomination or lack thereof.  It makes no difference how many ministries, members, locations and services we have, we remain one Body. […]

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A poem against internalization

You can search through my hair to ensure airport security. You can bar  and color- code my skin. You can socially position my body, marginalize or center. But, you cannot touch who is within. *** You can count me, number me: minority and majority. You can in and out me, believe in and doubt me. […]

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Four years and one day later

Happy anniversary!  I celebrated four years of writing about the social construct of race, America’s social parables and the ways in which they influence and inform our Christian faith… yesterday.  Obviously, it is a belated celebration but a noteworthy milestone nonetheless.  It is a cause for appreciation for and reflection on my writing life as […]

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