I am presently reading Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading by Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky. It, along with Samuel Wells’ Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics, are required reading for Duke University’s Foundations of Christian Leadership program. I will return at the end of this month to the Avila […]
“Don’t assume that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. I assure you: Until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or one stroke of a letter will pass from the law until all things are accomplished. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of […]
“You don’t come into this world African or European or Asian, rather this world comes into you. As literally hundreds of scientists have argued, you are not born with race in the same way you are born with fingers, eyes and hair. Fingers, eyes and hair are natural creations, whereas race is a social fabrication. […]
“Therefore, no condemnation now exists for those in Christ Jesus because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending his […]
A life lived racially gives me more than I want, more than I can handle, manage or control. It is before and beside me, inside of me and outside of me. It’s stereotypically connected to the foods that I eat, the clothing I wear and the car that I drive. It has rendered a judgment about everything […]