For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
The conversation I entered into with the attendees of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s ChurchWorks this week picks back up and concludes here: I suppose that it is a matter of pride and it’s a mind game. James uses the descriptor “double- minded” when speaking of the doubter who prays[i] but this two-ness is found both in […]
Read MoreThis week, I was in Decatur, Georgia and presented at ChurchWorks, a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship conference for ministers of spiritual formation and education. I, along with several others, spoke about the theological rumblings and ruminations of our shared ministry with Christ. I will present part one of the message here: “Jesus loves the little children/ […]
Read MoreI know that my work is hard, that my words are difficult, that a race-less gospel can be hard to believe and believe in. I believe it and initially, I was afraid to say it. It was not that I felt it was wrong, that I was not “fully persuaded,” that I thought that I […]
Read MoreUnlike the chicken or the egg analogy, human beings and the social construct of race are not inseparable. Humans did not come from race but race did come from humans, a product of Enlightenment thinking. Race was not “in the beginning” with God but is with us now because we created it. We came first […]
Read MoreRace makes us think that we are know- it- alls, that there are no new people under the sun: “If you’ve seen one, you seen them all.” Consequently, we don’t stop to look or listen to anyone anymore. We ask persons, “How are you doing?” but don’t wait for the answer. It is but a […]
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The Raceless Gospel 