For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
The words of race, those words don’t belong to me. They were not picked out specifically for me and I certainly did not ask for them by name. I did not ask to be called by or addressed as black. I would never introduce myself as such as this is not how I want to […]
Read MoreI am fully aware of the Church in America’s historical response to race, racism, slavery, segregation and the like: silent acceptance and an unapologetic, unexamined, uncalculated assimilation and application of its social truths into our theology, Christology, pneumatology, eschatology and ecclesiology. We have allowed race to retell the creation narrative, racism to dismember Christ’s body, cultural […]
Read More“If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I […]
Read More“For the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.” ~ First John 4.4, NRSV Greater. Greater is God who is in me than race that is in the world. Greater is God who is in me than racism that is in the world. Greater is God who […]
Read MoreWhile I understand that, as Americans, we will be socially color- coded black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige and that we should be prepared for the subsequent perceptions, prejudices and stereotypes, I don’t hear anyone challenging the racialized view of human identity. Instead, we accept it without explanation. We live and see ourselves as we […]
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The Raceless Gospel 