Faith seeking understanding– without race
Race is about beginnings. Do we enter the world as colored people or do we become colored people? Chicken or the egg, social colors or creatures, which came first? It is a necessary question if we are to rid ourselves of race. If we are to see that we can live without it, we must […]
Read MoreThere are some things that bear repeating. The Apostle Paul thought it was profitable to do so and I agree with the church father and martyr (Philippians 3.1). In order for us to rid ourselves of the social construct of race, we will have to repeat why it is not good for our identity to […]
Read MoreRace is a modern invention of the European Enlightenment: “European Enlightenment thinkers retained the Greek ideal of reason, as well as this reason’s categorical function of discriminating between the cultured (now called the ‘civilized) and the ‘barbarian’ (the ‘savage’ or the ‘primitive’). It can be argued, in fact, that the Enlightenment’s declaration of itself as […]
Read MoreI’ve had problems with race and its socially constructed identities for a long time. While studying the origin and purposes of race, my finger pointing turned away from people, realizing that we are its victims. Ironically, we’ve empowered race through science and sacred Scripture. Now, it disempowers us. We created a lie and know it […]
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The Raceless Gospel 