“Take Me to the Water!” Conference

June 14, 2025.Reading time 3 minutes.

I will be teaching the Raceless Gospel and from my first book, Take Me to the Water: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church, at the Queen’s Foundation in Birmingham, UK. It’s three days of powerful conversations to explore scripture and the work and witness of baptism as a response to tackling […]

The Raceless Gospel is Going to the Wild Goose Festival

March 31, 2024.Reading time 5 minutes.

The raceless gospel is going to the Wild Goose Festival in Union Grove, North Carolina this summer. Described as a family reunion, the gathering is “a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice.” *** I consider myself a race abolitionist, a dignity advocate, a community- building protagonist, a baptism evangelist. Through the work and witness […]

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

January 16, 2024.Reading time 9 minutes.

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, […]

From Blog to Book: “Take Me to the Water” Will Be Released in November

September 30, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

I began this blogging journey in March of 2011 and a few days ago, I submitted edits for the proof of my first book, Take Me to the Water: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church. I should have told you sooner but I was kept away by writing deadlines and check […]