Race is Too Small

“I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me.” ~ Galatians 2.20, NRSV Race attempts to group millions of individuals according to their culture and based on the external markers of their flesh:  the social coloring of skin, the shape of one’s […]

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Race and Reason

“We have a faith that forces you to reason about what makes us who we are. … In truth, we are never quite sure what we believe until some one gets it wrong.” ~ Stanley Hauerwas, Without Apology: Sermons for Christ’s Church ” Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen.” ~ Robert […]

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A Declaration of Exceptionalism

I am an exception to the rules of race.  I don’t follow them; I live to break them.  I live my life above the laws of race. Race cannot put me in a box and check me off.  I don’t fit and I won’t bend or contort to do so.  There is more room in […]

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How believing in race lowers our self- esteem

“I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” ~ Psalm 139.14, NRSV “I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!     Body and soul, I am marvelously made!” ~ Psalm 139.14, The Message Our belief in race makes us dependent.  It teaches us to prop our selves up on our appearance and the judgments that persons […]

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How Race Slowly Kills Us

Are you living or dying?  Well, if you believe in the social construct of race, then your life is a slow yet acceptable death.  At birth, we are told that we are socially colored black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige, that this is the way things are so we might as well get used to […]

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