I don’t like race. I think that this is obvious by now. But, what I cannot understand is why so many people do, why they choose to accept it despite all of its bad words and behavior, why we give it so much power and allow it to tell us who we and others are […]
I’ve done a lot of reading on race and its progeny, on the effects of our hatreds, on the traditions of prejudice. As a child, it began as an interest, a hobby. I was naturally drawn to things that were race- related. Not dolls, miniature kitchen sets or even sports but books, movies, pictures that […]
The psalmist declares, “In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust, I am not afraid; what can flesh do to me?” [1] The psalmist is talking about people and their attempts to attack him. He writes earlier, “Be gracious to me, O God, for people trample on me; all day long foes oppress […]
Race is not all there is to us. We are not the social coloring of skin. We are not just epidermis. There is an inside of us that we barely address, that we rarely acknowledge that is impacted by this overwhelming focus on the external, the outside of us. Frankly, race is no part of […]
Bear witness to the All- Image God, who sees all of us and all of Him in all of us. There is no center or margin in God, no minority or majority, no insider or outsider, no stranger or immigrant. There is only God and we are in Him. Bear witness to the Mirror- God, […]