For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
As many of us gear up for summer vacations with flip flops, sunglasses and sunscreen, I want to remind us of the journey offered in books. Words can take us places. Within their pages are invitations to journey not just to distant and magical lands but to places closer to home, to undiscovered holy sites […]
Read MoreYesterday, I shared a message with the congregation titled, “Costly Obedience.” Unpacking the well- known hymn recorded in Philippians 2.5-11, I invited listeners to consider again the price that Christ paid for our sins. It was a costly obedience because he was obedient to the point of death– not obedient for personal gain, not agreeable […]
Read MoreThe social construct of race and its commandments are often used as supplemental material for the Bible. Or, we take out the characters of the Bible altogether and insert our culture– but no one else’s. God’s promises are for us and not them. God is talking to us and not them. The social construct of […]
Read MoreI don’t think that there are words to cover the ground of 2016, the depth of loss and grief, the seemingly endless reports of violence, a divisive political election and loss of notable famous faces. More than usual or at least in recent memory, there was a desire to be out with the old and […]
Read MoreHow did the invisible, immortal and eternal God become a blonde haired, blue eyed socially colored white man? Who approved of this gross social reduction and theological diminishing of the Divine? And why do we continue to go along with it? Why do we worship whiteness as if the God of the Christian faith? Why do […]
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The Raceless Gospel 