Race was not a social category in the ancient world of the Bible. “The ancient world did not make skin color the focus of irrational sentiments or the basis for uncritical evaluation. …(T)he ancient world did not fall into the error of biological racism; black skin color was not a sign of inferiority; Greeks and […]
Race allows you and I to look away, to not look at ourselves fully or completely. We do not have to face ourselves alone and a part from its insecurities that make us feel safe. We want race to tell us what we see and who/ what/ when/ where/ why we should ignore. We need race to do for us […]
Today, on Facebook, someone posted this acronym: V.O.T.E.–Victory Over The Enemy. It is messages like these that I seek to address and undo through my writings. The Church must be Christ’s Church but it seems that this election has revealed that there is a Church of the Democrats, a Church of the Republicans and a […]
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 […]
Nature, noun: “the fundamental qualities of a person or thing; identity or essential character; disposition or temperament; tendencies, desires, instincts governing behavior; the normal biological needs or urges of the body; sort; kind; character; the real appearance of a person or thing; accepted standards of basic morality or behavior” ~World English Dictionary Race does not […]