Tag: baptism

Dead in the water: Raceless Identity as Baptismal Identity

.Reading time 7 minutes.

Racism is often confused with race. So, when I say raceless, I am not suggesting that racism is not real. The sociopolitical construct that supports our hate is a fallacy but racism, prejudice, stereotyping and their progeny are facts and proof of an unequal reality. We are not post- racial or past this, not in […]

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Becoming New: Racial Formation and Baptismal Identity

.Reading time 4 minutes.

“What are we to do with a church that speaks to people on the basis of their gender or race, all the while baptizing them on the basis of Galatians 3.28?” “In baptism, the text becomes Scripture for us, canon, laid on us as a new story that illumines our stories. In baptism, we are […]

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The Reconciling Race Series: What Does Race Reconcile?

.Reading time 3 minutes.

“From now on then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know him like that. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; old things have passed away and look, new things have […]

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