Faith seeking understanding– without race
Representative John Lewis died on Friday, July 17th. He is known for his passionate commitment to civil rights, justice and equality for all, for his sacrificial leadership and critical witness on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. It came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.” In the end, he would be arrested […]
Read MoreShe has a way with words, soft- spoken or stern, we know she means business. Still, open to compromise, she trades in sweets, recants her belief in punishment and concedes though she could have won the argument. Because the relationship is more important, because that’s her baby. And we will be her baby even when […]
Read MoreHer hands are made of the good God stuff, divine fairy dust. Sweet yet strong, she may be shorter but her reach is long. These hands pull us up and out. They are “how we got over.” Her hands are our bridge and our mother- cradle. Pushing us to go harder, faster, higher, her hands […]
Read MoreOn the anniversary of his assassination, I am remembering these words: “Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation […]
Read MoreThis morning, I awake with the same sick feeling in my stomach, to the same troubling reality: Nine praying people, nine believing people, nine shining lights of Christ blown out… “blown away” they say by a 21 year old named Dylann Roof. They sat at a table in the presence of an enemy who poured […]
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The Raceless Gospel 