The Raceless Gospel: An Embodied Homiletic for a Disembodied Christianity

January 27, 2026.Reading time 8 minutes.

The Raceless Gospel is part proclamation, part embodied praxis. The integration of physical engagement with belief strengthens my conviction that we are all God’s children and race is not a genealogical indicator. Feet to pavement, I am convinced following Jesus doesn’t lead us to a church building but to bodies marginalized, racialized, hyper-surveilled and criminalized. Were […]

The Raceless Gospel: Future- Casting in an Ass-Backward America

January 19, 2026.Reading time 7 minutes.

The Trump administration is actively trying to erase African American history and make the present insufferable for persons who are marginalized, criminalized and dehumanizingly categorized as “illegal” and “alien.” So, I work for a future I can live into. By this, I don’t simply mean move forward but actively resist by refusing to share in […]

The Raceless Gospel: Writing for a World Yet to Be

January 10, 2026.Reading time 8 minutes.

To whom do I address the message of the Raceless Gospel? No one in particular. I don’t have a target audience as this proclamation is for a world yet to be.

“Take Me to the Water!” Conference

June 14, 2025.Reading time 3 minutes.

I will be teaching the Raceless Gospel and from my first book, Take Me to the Water: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church, at the Queen’s Foundation in Birmingham, UK. It’s three days of powerful conversations to explore scripture and the work and witness of baptism as a response to tackling […]

A Love Offering: When Writing Requires That You Pay Through the Nose

October 23, 2024.Reading time 9 minutes.

As the fifth season of The Raceless Gospel podcast ends, I look at my hands and wonder how it came to this. How did it end up costing so much? I’m not talking about dollars and cents, but something pricier. I had to tell more truths than I budgeted for. Each episode was taxing and seemingly asking […]