The Race Pass: A Compromised Faith

December 1, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

Yesterday, I introduced the concept of the race pass and through social media continued to unpack the idea. I often pray for divine insight into the social construct of race with the hope of further revealing its weaknesses and prayerfully, loosening its grip on our faith. I think […]

This may sound absurd

April 22, 2015.Reading time 3 minutes.

“If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it.” ~ Albert Einstein I am not sharing the most popular message. It has certainly been perceived as naive, misinformed and premature. I seem to have missed a few steps, be lacking in experience or unable to see the full […]

Unpacking the baggage of race

April 17, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

The American racial identity is baggage. It is a bunch of small containers for our humanity that transport us to the destiny of history. Race is a round trip backward. There is so much to race, so much that we have to hold on to and positions that we cannot let go. Race is cumbersome […]

What can we expect of race?

November 18, 2014.Reading time 1 minute.

What do we expect of an unjust system, an unfair practice that bases human value and purpose on the social coloring of skin? Why do we ask of skin, look to the surface to give our lives and the lives we live with others a deeper meaning? Why place such an expectation on race? Why […]

Dear Body of Christ

November 16, 2014.Reading time 1 minute.

Dear Body of Christ, We are the Body of Christ, not the race or races of Christ. We are not colors but the children of God, not stereotypes but the saints of God, not prejudicial guesses but members of a royal priesthood. I thought that we were called to walk in the spirit not after […]

The Raceless Gospel

Tag: post- racial faith