The Search for Common Ground Continues: The Journey to Somebodiness with Howard Thurman

September 29, 2024.Reading time 7 minutes.

From the militant steps of Harriet Tubman to the mystical pace of Howard Thurman, these ancestors balance the raceless gospel out. Strident and deeply spiritual, they bear witness to self- emancipation lived out, finding common ground within and then walking it out. Howard Thurman offers a vision and a model of “radical inclusion” lived out. […]

The Raceless Gospel as a Proclamation of Somebodiness

June 3, 2024.Reading time 8 minutes.

“I’ve been called everything but a child of God.” The raceless gospel follows the longstanding Black Church tradition of affirming the personhood of bodies racialized as black despite dehumanizing and oppressive systems while centering the self- determination of persons of African descent in America. The Black Church offers a new headquarters for minoritized and marginalized […]

An Embodied Faith for Somebody

June 30, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition,” James Baldwin wrote in Giovanni’s Room. He opened a door of deeper meaning for his readers and affirmed what I believe with every fiber of my being: You are always right at home in your body. I close my eyes and make myself right […]

When the World is Shaking, Grab Howard Thurman’s The Search for Common Ground

March 31, 2023.Reading time 8 minutes.

Howard Thurman’s The Search for Common Ground probes the beginning of the never- ending, that is the ground of our communal being. When the world is shaking and you fear you might lose your grip, grab a hold of this book. He asserts that there is a place where we all belong, where every living […]

Baptism is the way to the undivided “kin-dom” that is coming

February 26, 2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

My heart is with my siblings in Ukraine. Russia is attacking their home, starting a war during a global pandemic. I pray for their peace and protection. I mourn for the lives lost to the vanities of war and power’s greed. I pray that we will be able to see ourselves without either. Masks on, […]