Faith seeking understanding– without race
It is the title of a new book that offers readings on race, racism and racial violence. Professors Chad Williams, Kidada Williams, and Keisha N. Blain, its authors, offer this collection of writings in hopes of strengthening our conversations about race after the Charleston massacre on June 17, 2015. On this terrible day, twenty- one […]
Read MoreThis morning, I learned of a seventh African American- led church set ablaze. The cause for the burning of Mount Zion AME church in Greeleyville, South Carolina is still under investigation. But, before the smoke signal of this latest burning reached the news, six others in Florida, Tennessee, North and South Carolina were struck with […]
Read MoreThe recent murder of nine church members to include the pastor, the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina has hurt me deeply. I am aching in places I cannot touch and for which I don’t believe that there is a salve on the market. It is one thing to […]
Read MoreYesterday, during our morning worship service, I read the names of the nine people murdered at Emanuel AME Church last Wednesday by suspected killer 21 year old Dylann Roof at Emanuel AME Church last Wednesday. I am still at a loss for words that would capture all of the feelings and thoughts that are running […]
Read MoreThis morning, I awake with the same sick feeling in my stomach, to the same troubling reality: Nine praying people, nine believing people, nine shining lights of Christ blown out… “blown away” they say by a 21 year old named Dylann Roof. They sat at a table in the presence of an enemy who poured […]
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The Raceless Gospel 