Race is Too Small

“I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me.” ~ Galatians 2.20, NRSV Race attempts to group millions of individuals according to their culture and based on the external markers of their flesh:  the social coloring of skin, the shape of one’s […]

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A Declaration of Exceptionalism

I am an exception to the rules of race.  I don’t follow them; I live to break them.  I live my life above the laws of race. Race cannot put me in a box and check me off.  I don’t fit and I won’t bend or contort to do so.  There is more room in […]

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How Race Slowly Kills Us

Are you living or dying?  Well, if you believe in the social construct of race, then your life is a slow yet acceptable death.  At birth, we are told that we are socially colored black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige, that this is the way things are so we might as well get used to […]

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What are you looking at?

The Bible says that when we are baptized, we put on Christ (Galatians 3.27).  Our appearance changes and the social value placed on our external attributes loses its effect.  Or, it should.  Instead, we are to strive to have the mind of Christ, to live the life of Christ and to practice the love of […]

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If you are looking for the image of God

“But (God) said, “you cannot see my face; for no one shall see me and live.” ~ Exodus 33.20, NRSV “No one has ever seen God.  It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.” ~ John 1.18, NRSV The Creator cannot be molded or fashioned […]

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