Faith seeking understanding– without race
Another year, another Advent season. God is with us and it is spectacular. Or, maybe it isn’t anymore. Perhaps, we are beginning to feel that God has come and gone due to a political season that has taken a toll on the American psyche. And then there is the fact that Jesus’ story could now […]
Read MoreI have spent the past couple of weeks preparing for and then preaching and teaching in the tristate area. Repeatedly, I have heard across age groups and genders this anxiety that with the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States that all is lost, that we have taken ten steps […]
Read MoreMy grandmother, Eva Mae Thomas, was my first catechizer and theologian. At the age of 12, she put a pen and notepad in my hand and asked me to “write down all the Scriptures that the preacher says.” There were more than a few and it was my delight to record each one of them. […]
Read MoreRace is not the only box that society suggests we come in but there are those who would box up the woman because of her gender. There are those who still believe that her hands are only useful in the kitchen and that she has no place, no business outside of the home. It is […]
Read More“Knowing what’s right does not mean much unless you do what’s right.” ~Theodore Roosevelt There is so much terrain to cover and so many layers to our continuing conversation on race and its progeny. To be sure, I agree with President Obama as to the nature of our conversations moving forward. He said during Wednesday’s […]
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The Raceless Gospel 