There is no interrupting race and there is nothing that we can do to change its decisions about us. What the social coloring of our skin says about us goes. There is no other interpretation and subsequently, no other reality. To challenge or to question race would be disrespectful. It is race that has made us and […]
“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.” ~ Matthew 7.1-2, New Revised Standard Version There are some things that we don’t want to pray about, that we choose not to enter […]
Questions. It seems that I have an endless supply of them, especially when it comes to race. I guess that I collect them. In fact, I am always looking for the right word and more specifically, the right question to unravel the social construct of race. I sit and think not about answers to race […]
This week, I am attending the Children, Youth and a New Kind of Christianity conference hosted at Calvary Baptist Church in downtown DC. Dave Csinos, the founder and chair of the planning committee, has drawn leaders from across the world for “intentional reflection and conversation about the spiritual formation of young people within progressive, emerging, […]
“If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews, as to the law a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the […]