“Jump Higher, Run Faster”: How Race Curses Us

“Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat of its fruit.” ~Proverb 18.21 I attended a training on diversity some years ago and in an attempt to explain the social disadvantages of socially colored black people, the African American woman leader of this two day seminar explained […]

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Cutting Away The Flesh of Race: The Marks of Jesus

“It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh that would compel you to be circumcised and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. For even those who receive circumcision do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that […]

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Race Has Bewitched Us

“O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing the faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? Did […]

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The Grace-less Life: One Saving Color

“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God– not because of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” ~Ephesians 2.8, […]

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Moving Forward

“Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made it His own. Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind me and straining […]

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