The Future of Believing

July 31, 2026.Reading time 7 minutes.

The future of believing is for imaginaries. Christian faith traditions bound by contextless traditions and visions of yesteryear should be seen from the rearview mirror. Because if we are going to make progress on Howard Thurman’s question posed in Jesus and the Disinherited: “Why is it that Christianity seems impotent to deal radically, and therefore effectively, […]

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 […]