For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“Our problems lie in how we see ourselves. We’ve bought into so much without thinking.” ~ Ali Karjoo- Ravary, a friend I made at the Chautauqua Institute More is better and we can certainly use more power when it comes to overcoming race. So much of what we hear and see and say suggests that we […]
Read MoreIn Christ, I begin again. Old time is gone, no longer to be seen again. New time is present. I need only to attend to it, to attest to it. I am here and I am right now. I am a new creature. In Christ, I begin again. A stereotype is a repeated identity. God […]
Read More“I was regretting the past and fearing the future. Suddenly my Lord was speaking: ‘My name is I AM.’ He paused. I waited. He continued. ‘When you live in the past, with its mistakes and regrets, it is hard. I am not there. My name is I WAS. When you live in the future with […]
Read More“I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you in the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel– not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are confusing you and want to pervert the gospel. But even if we or an angel from heaven should […]
Read More“To put an end to something is an act of faith not an act of disloyalty.” Trish Miller, the new Mid- Atlantic Cooperative Baptist Fellowship coordinator, said these words over a lunch meeting with other CBF pastors. Her words were unexpected. What was a regular conversation about denominational life became what Eugene Peterson calls “a […]
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The Raceless Gospel 