For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
The conversation I entered into with the attendees of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s ChurchWorks this week picks back up and concludes here: I suppose that it is a matter of pride and it’s a mind game. James uses the descriptor “double- minded” when speaking of the doubter who prays[i] but this two-ness is found both in […]
Read MoreRace has a lot to say about you and me, “us” and “them.” This social construct tells us who we are and will be, where to go and where we are not welcome, whether we are in or out, center or margin. Race tells us where we belong and when. A director of our society, […]
Read MoreMany of us see ourselves as a colored person. We are black people, white people, red people, brown people, yellow people, beige people. Well, maybe the first two are true. The color wheel doesn’t turn beyond black and white for much of America. Instead, much more of American society and even other parts of […]
Read Moremis·rep·re·sen·ta·tion/ˌmisreprəzenˈtāSH(ə)n/, Noun 1. the action or offense of giving a false or misleading account of the nature of something When we call ourselves racial beings, socially colored black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige people, we misrepresent our Creator. God is not a racial being or a Racial Being, a supreme among supremes, defined or confined […]
Read More“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all of the people’s on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.” ~ Deuteronomy 7.6, NRSV The scriptures that accompany this verse have been used for all of the wrong reasons: American slavery, Jim […]
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The Raceless Gospel 