For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
What inspires our belief in race? Why do we have so much faith in this social construct? Is it because we built it that we take pride in it, that we cannot let it go? For me and I suppose so many others, race creates more questions than answers. In fact, the more that I […]
Read More“The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers…” ~ Ephesians 4.11, NRSV Unfortunately, most of us treat the social coloring of skin, the shape of our noses the texture of our hair as a gift from God. However, we believe that some not all social […]
Read More“Say it loud. ‘I’m black and I’m proud.’” ~ James Brown It was 1968 and James Brown was the conductor of a chorus who sang about black pride, empowerment and self- reliance. It was a call and response of black power. And timidity was not appropriate; instead, persons were encouraged to “say it loud.” In […]
Read More“I was regretting the past and fearing the future. Suddenly my Lord was speaking: ‘My name is I AM.’ He paused. I waited. He continued. ‘When you live in the past, with its mistakes and regrets, it is hard. I am not there. My name is I WAS. When you live in the future with […]
Read More“There’s a certain learned passivity about the spiritual life that is hard to program and hard to make popular. People who give leadership in spiritual direction, the good ones, that’s basically what they’re doing: they’re trying to train us and teach us how not to be in control of our lives; to enter into what […]
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The Raceless Gospel 