Tag: faith and race

Race Made Me Do It: How Race Makes Us Unconscious

.Reading time 5 minutes.

We believe that we are born into race and behave as if we are preprogrammed by it, predisposed to being racially motivated. We wouldn’t hate or stereotype or segregate or kill if the person had not been black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige. If they had only been different, if they had only been the […]

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Race Is No Mystery

.Reading time 3 minutes.

The human being is no mystery.  There are witnesses to our beginning and our end, persons who have gone before us and who will follow, persons to bring us into the world and to carry us out of it.  Our ignorance of each other does not mean that we are not known or able to […]

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A Pilgrimage to the New Self

.Reading time 4 minutes.

“Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.” ~Frederick Buechner Dorothy Ranaghan says that Christian spirituality is “a plan, a means, an attempt to find a way of living every day in growing union with God.”  The Christian life is […]

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The Genealogy of Race

.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Difference begot intrique, Intrigue begot interaction, Interaction begot comparison, Comparison begot dissatisfaction, Dissatisfaction begot jealousy, Jealousy begot pride and anger, Pride and anger begot hatred, Hatred begot prejudice, Prejudice begot stereotypes, Stereotypes begot race.

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