The Raceless Gospel Goes to the Wild Goose Festival

First came this blog, then came The Raceless Gospel Initiative, then came The Raceless Gospel podcast, Take Me to the Water and the Wild Goose Festival. Or however that nursery rhyme goes! Since the publication of my first book, Take Me to the Water: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church, I’ve […]

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The North American Church Needs to “Wade in the Water”

Wade in the water Wade in the water, children  Wade in the water God’s gonna’ trouble the water Except we get in the water, and it doesn’t seem to trouble us that the North American church is still segregated, that there is a Black and White Church, that we remain divided over American chattel slavery, […]

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Take Me to the Water Offers a Raceless Gospel to the Segregated Church

“Take Me to the Water”: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church is the newest release from Nurturing Faith Books and marks a turning point for the raceless gospel. Take Me to the Water offers a critical look at baptism, the rite of passage meant to signify new birth, and the segregation of […]

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The Raceless Gospel is graduating!

On May 8th at 2 p.m., I will graduate with a Doctor of Ministry degree from Wesley Theological Seminary during a formal ceremony at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. From The Daily Race to The Raceless Gospel Initiative at Good Faith Media, this vision of a raceless “kin-dom” has come a long way. […]

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The Monotony of Hatred: Race has nothing new to say

Deconstructing race, tearing down the linguistic, legal and living structures that support the defacing of the imago Dei in all human beings is hard work. So is keeping a racialized group propped up to look down their noses at others not chosen to be white. It is easier to simply rinse and repeat after race, […]

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