Tag: God is not a white man

Making God in the Image of Whiteness

.Reading time 3 minutes.

How did the invisible, immortal and eternal God become a blonde haired, blue eyed socially colored white man?  Who approved of this gross social reduction and theological diminishing of the Divine?  And why do we continue to go along with it? Why do we worship whiteness as if the God of the Christian faith?  Why do […]

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Before God Was White: The Rumblings of a Race-less Theology

.Reading time 5 minutes.

“God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ~ John 4.24, NRSV Halloween is over and yet, it seems nearly impossible to remove the mask of whiteness from the face of God.  Now a spooky, to be avoided, death- wielding deity, this socially colored white God has it in […]

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