Faith seeking understanding– without race
“I had a change of heart.” We’ve all heard or said these words before. It is a changing of our disposition, our perspective on a situation or person. It has happened over time, a fews days, weeks, months or even years. The changing of one’s heart does take time. And a change of heart is […]
Read More“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 […]
Read MoreUnlearning 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. […]
Read More“We are trapped in history and history is trapped in us,” James Baldwin said. Perhaps, it is time to remove the snare, to be free to live in the moment. To receive the present as a gift of newness. While I am certainly one who loves history, reflection and meditating on words of old, I […]
Read MoreUsing insight from the field of psychology and hoping to bring unity to the Body of Christ, Christena Cleveland offers techniques for small groups to influence their church or organization in a recent post: “How a small group of reconcilers can influence a church or organization.”
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The Raceless Gospel 