Race and Reason

“We have a faith that forces you to reason about what makes us who we are. … In truth, we are never quite sure what we believe until some one gets it wrong.” ~ Stanley Hauerwas, Without Apology: Sermons for Christ’s Church ” Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen.” ~ Robert […]

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Healing ourselves of race

Race hurts.  It hurts because it attacks the essence of who we are and it gets personal.  It talks about our appearance, who our parents are, where we live and how we behave.  It either says that it is wrong and bad or that it is good and better; either way, it places us at […]

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Ingredients

“…then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” ~ Genesis 2.7, NRSV We all have the same ingredients: dust and breath.  And in the end, when we are out of breath, we shall return to the […]

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Resurrecting Race

Who told you that you were socially colored black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige?  Sure, you looked in the mirror and saw that the pigment of your skin had a ‘color.’  But, who told you that it was this color or that?  Who gave you its meaning?  Who told you that it was better or […]

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Questioning Race (Part Three)

The root of the word question is the word quest, which is defined as “the long and arduous search for something.”  In my questioning of the social construct of race, what am I hoping to find?  I am hoping to discover more of myself, to go deeper into the spiritual reality that is me, to see […]

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