Abolishing Racism: Creating a Future without Race

December 31, 2024.Reading time 1 minute.

You’re invited! Tell them I sent you. It’s a one- day conference, a virtual event, and an opportunity to imagine a world without racism. My colleagues and I all think that it requires a future without race. In a world where the concept of “race” continues to permeate our societies and shape our perceptions, the […]

Are You Asking For Trouble?

February 7, 2024.Reading time 8 minutes.

What has the North American church gotten itself into? Known more for infighting, schisms and splits, the focus has largely been on doctrinal beliefs and buildings. But what about the church as the very real body of Christ, as baptized believers? There are 215 somebodies buried in shallow graves behind a Jackson, Mississippi jail and […]

The North American Church Needs to “Wade in the Water”

January 16, 2024.Reading time 9 minutes.

Wade in the water Wade in the water, children Wade in the water God’s gonna’ trouble the water Except we get in the water, and it doesn’t seem to trouble us that the North American church is still segregated, that there is a Black and White Church, that we remain divided over American chattel slavery, […]

Take Me to the Water Offers a Raceless Gospel to the Segregated Church

November 9, 2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Take Me to the Water”: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church is the newest release from Nurturing Faith Books and marks a turning point for the raceless gospel. Take Me to the Water offers a critical look at baptism, the rite of passage meant to signify new birth, and the segregation of […]

Tear It Down

August 31, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

Race is a sociopolitical construct, a long word and a long way of saying that human beings made it up. Not revelation brought down from a mountain like Moses in Exodus but it was built into a system of oppression from the tip of our tongues up, which is why I talk it down and […]