Tag: race and love

If you hate

.Reading time 3 minutes.

Race allows us to categorize people, to lump entire human populations together, to pack them into overcrowded boxes and store them in the socioeconomic basement of our society.  Race helps us to forget our commonality as human beings, “out of sight, out of mind.”  It focuses on and creates more differences than even exist in […]

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Hatred begins at home

.Reading time 5 minutes.

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” ~ Mother Theresa I am convinced that the reason why we continue to live as we have lived– cynical, despondent and dazed– is because there has been no change in the way that we love.  Our love is not deep enough or […]

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This is how race loves us

.Reading time 6 minutes.

If we love persons according to race, if our love is racially prescribed and motivated, a love that is demonstrated according to the social coloring of skin, then we do not love as God loves.  We do not love with the love of Christ.  I would go so far as to say that we do […]

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