Colored by the number

  Many of us see ourselves as a colored person.  We are black people, white people, red people, brown people, yellow people, beige people.  Well, maybe the first two are true.  The color wheel doesn’t turn beyond black and white for much of America.  Instead, much more of American society and even other parts of […]

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How Race Haunts Us

We are ghost people: ghosts of the past, ghosts of the present, ghosts of the future.  We are the thoughts that we are afraid of.  What we hope does not happen, we create.  We put on sheets and say, “Booooo.” We believe that we are going to be afraid so we live life with the […]

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Bear Witness

Bear witness to the All- Image God, who sees all of us and all of Him in all of us.  There is no center or margin in God, no minority or majority, no insider or outsider, no stranger or immigrant.  There is only God and we are in Him. Bear witness to the Mirror- God, […]

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Pray the questions

As the associate pastor at my church, one of my responsibilities is to provide the pastoral prayer every Sunday.  I thought, “I love talking to God.  This will be easy, maybe even fun.”  Oh, I was so naive, so unaware, so out of touch with the rhythm of my own prayer life.  But, I was […]

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What is race doing here?

We are very spiritual people… in church. We make for great Christians between 11 a.m. and noon. It is so easy to share a hymnal, to forgive someone who steps on our toe as she slides into the seat next to us, to smile and greet a new visitor.  We behave as if God only […]

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