Tag: Race and Christianity

Leaving Captivity

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Caged.  That’s what I feel like when I begin to talk about life lived according to race.  My voice even starts to constrict and my palms start to sweat. Sure, I can move but only so far and I can see and be seen but my vantage point is very limited.  My world is shaped […]

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God Did His Best

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God did His best when He created each of us.  Race cannot improve upon us.  And there is nothing that race adds to us that takes away from what God has given us and who God has called us to be.  When God said us, spoke us into being that settled us. No hesitation.  No […]

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The Theological Problem of Race

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“For ‘In him we live and move and have our being.’” ~ Acts 17.28, NRSV Persons may wonder how I can talk about race the way that I do.  For me, it is a matter of allegiance.  I recognized some time ago that I could not serve God and believe in race.  I had to […]

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Race Is Not Enough

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I am more than what the eyes can see or what they tell you I am or will be.  I am not just flesh and bone but soul and spirit, not tied to earth but bound for heaven.  I don’t just walk. More than this flesh and its members.  I have more than feet, wings […]

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Seeing is Saying

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“I refuse to be intimidated by reality anymore.  What is reality?  Nothing but a collective hunch?” ~ Lily Tomlin “Seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization.” ~ Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek “All the world is window.  No material is opaque.  If we are willing to see– people, circumstances, situations, relationships– […]

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