“Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” ~ Exodus 20.17, HCSB “All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, […]
There is no interrupting race and there is nothing that we can do to change its decisions about us. What the social coloring of our skin says about us goes. There is no other interpretation and subsequently, no other reality. To challenge or to question race would be disrespectful. It is race that has made us and […]
Questions. It seems that I have an endless supply of them, especially when it comes to race. I guess that I collect them. In fact, I am always looking for the right word and more specifically, the right question to unravel the social construct of race. I sit and think not about answers to race […]
This week, I am attending the Children, Youth and a New Kind of Christianity conference hosted at Calvary Baptist Church in downtown DC. Dave Csinos, the founder and chair of the planning committee, has drawn leaders from across the world for “intentional reflection and conversation about the spiritual formation of young people within progressive, emerging, […]
“If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews, as to the law a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the […]