For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
I am fully aware of the Church in America’s historical response to race, racism, slavery, segregation and the like: silent acceptance and an unapologetic, unexamined, uncalculated assimilation and application of its social truths into our theology, Christology, pneumatology, eschatology and ecclesiology. We have allowed race to retell the creation narrative, racism to dismember Christ’s body, cultural […]
Read More“For the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.” ~ First John 4.4, NRSV Greater. Greater is God who is in me than race that is in the world. Greater is God who is in me than racism that is in the world. Greater is God who […]
Read More“I die daily.” ~ First Corinthians 15.31 Funerals. No one likes them, right? Well, except for morticians perhaps! And death, like politics and religion, is a subject to be avoided unless absolutely necessary. Whether it is because of the resultant grief, the mystery that shrouds it or fear of our own demise, death is not […]
Read More“Religious traditions offer a unique perspective on identity by offering a framework for integrating our life journey and setting boundaries for who we are. Religion concerns itself with boundaries of who we are and who we are not. … Religion orients a person in relation to the forces in the universe and at the same time […]
Read More“A church that doesn’t provoke any crisis, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn’t touch the real sin of the society in which it is being preached-what kind of gospel is that? Very nice, pious considerations that don’t bother anyone, that’s the […]
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The Raceless Gospel 