The Raceless Gospel: Writing for a World Yet to Be
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.
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“Take Me to the Water!” Conference
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 […]
Read MoreA Love Offering: When Writing Requires That You Pay Through the Nose
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 […]
Read MoreThe Raceless Gospel Is Recognized With an Honorary Doctorate
A few weeks ago, I was invited to speak to the graduates of Wayland Baptist Theological Seminary during their 212th Commencement and to my surprise, was given an honorary doctorate in sacred theology for my work as a public theologian. The short story is: I cried. Because I don’t do this work to be recognized […]
Read More“Take Me to the Water”: The Raceless Gospel for a Washed- Up Church
Starlette, a baptism evangelist and minor poet—sent to you neither by her own will nor human manipulations but by way of troubled waters, moved by the Spirit groaning due to a prolonged laboring for a new humanity, for a “kin-dom” that is coming. Asking parenthetically, “Why aren’t we reborn yet? Why aren’t we there yet? […]
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