Doing justice to our bodies: How race wrongs us

July 8, 2018.Reading time 18 minutes.

“The problem is solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.” | Ludwig Wittgenstein This past week, I had the opportunity to attend the Baptist World Alliance’s Annual Gathering in Zurich, Switzerland and to present a paper as a member of the Commission on Racial and Gender Justice. […]

Questioning Race during Advent

November 27, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

Christ has come! This first Sunday of Advent reminds us that power was found in a cradle– not a crown. Like persons in Jesus’s day, we are guilty of looking for him in the wrong places and among the wrong people. As outlined in his stories, Jesus came to rearrange and change the order of […]

Raise the questions

March 3, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

The question of race is one that I use to wrestle with. For a long time, it won because I thought that its answers to my identity were stronger and better trained. Looking back, I think that I let race win because I did not perceive it as an enemy but more like a coach, […]

The theology of race

January 10, 2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

Why I am so adamant when it comes to my position on race and its position behind me? Why can’t race represent me or introduce me? Why do its prejudices not speak for my neighbor, the stranger or the immigrant? Why can’t its stereotypes inform my understanding of human beings? I’m glad that you asked. […]

Living From Offense to Offense

October 20, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

“So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who […]

The Raceless Gospel

Tag: faith and race