Faith seeking understanding– without race
“Wishing He I served were black, Thinking then it would not lack Precedent of pain to guide it, Let who would or might deride it, Surely then this flesh would know Yours had borne a kindred woe. Lord I fashion dark gods too, Daring even to give you Dark despairing features where, Crowned with dark […]
Read MoreColor is about lines And lines are about borders And borders are about belonging Mine and yours I need my space We must keep our distance And distance is about fear We draw lines around our communities, our commitments We will only go so far Lines around our conversations We don’t say what we mean or […]
Read MoreToday marks the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Like many Americans, I began the day listening to the reading of the names of those who lost their lives on that dreadful day. I observed the impact of each plane crash with a moment of silence. And for that moment, I was […]
Read MoreOur skin was made for us. We were not made for our skin. Consequently, it is not our skin that must change but our additional uses for it. Skin was not added to us to shape, determine or influence our identity. Its social coloring does not say who we are or who we will be. […]
Read More“Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals, all the earth and the creatures that crawl on the earth.” ~Genesis 1.26 My husband and I have not been living in our new apartment a […]
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The Raceless Gospel 