Category: Teaching Racelessness

My Life’s Resolution

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“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.” ~ Leo Tolstoy “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming […]

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Questioning Race (Part Two)

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What is the meaning of the racialized life?  What is its purpose, its goal, its end?  Why are we, the “races,” here?  If race is our creator, as people of color (“White” is a color too.), what were we placed on the earth to do?  What happens when we die after we have lived our […]

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Before

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“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” ~ Jeremiah 1.5, NRSV How does God know us?  This opening statement of God’s calling of the Old Testament weeping prophet Jeremiah says that God knows us a part […]

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Welcome to Our Race-less World

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On Friday, November 23, 2012, the newest member of our family, John Curtis McNeill, III was born.  We are grateful to God for his life, its strength and its ministry.  It is our prayer and our heart’s desire that we would serve as examples of the truth that God has revealed to us regarding race […]

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I Just Had to Say It

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I couldn’t say black or white or red or yellow or beige or brown anymore.  I just couldn’t refer to people by social colors, pretending that their skin offered some innate, inherent meaning, that it suggested the manner in which they should be viewed and subsequently treated.  I didn’t believe in race and there was […]

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