“…as it is written, ‘I have made you the father of many nations’)– in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.” ~ Romans 4.17, NRSV Paul is writing about Abraham, the father of our faith and likewise, […]
While I am certainly a promoter of community, fellowship and reconciliation, there are things for which I would separate myself, for which I would not want to be counted with the number. My identity is one of them. I cherish my being more than my belonging. And if I had to stand alone, I would […]
It’s about hate versus love. We will have to choose whether we are going to live in hatred or walk in love. Before hatred kills, it cripples and without love, we will never walk unimpeded. It’s about us versus them. We will have to choose to accept that there is only us. There is no […]
“I’m a problem. You’re a problem. We’re all a problem.” That about sums up any conversation on race. We have told “them” and “you people” how we feel for more than four hundred years and there have been responses. We have enslaved, traded, murdered, marched, sat in, sung about it, been falsely accused, jailed and […]
Unlearning race and undoing racism is hard and time- consuming work. It is a challenging work because it requires confrontation. But, wait! Before you start to clear your throat to recite what you would tell someone else about how “they” have treated you, let me interject. It requires self- confrontation. Race is always personal first. […]