Tag: race-less Christianity

It’s Our Anniversary

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March 10, 2011, I set out on this journey toward race-lessness and as the hymn writer says, “I wouldn’t take nothing for my journey now.”  The blog was first named The Daily Race.  Working with each post to create sacred space for a life without race, I relied heavily on my conviction that there was life […]

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Lenten Resources on Race

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Most times, persons give up things like chocolate and fast food to mark the Lenten season, the forty days leading up to Christ’s crucifixion.  I was one of them partly because  I was copying the practices of others.  I had not seriously or fully considered what Christ had given up: his life.  I am embarrassed […]

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Stepping Out of the Shadows of Race

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“This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.  If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true; but if we walk in […]

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If I Accept Race

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If I accept race, then I must deny everything that God says about me.  I must pretend as if she does not exist and that I do not have an interest in knowing her.  If I accept race, I must ignore the voice of God, calling me to awaken and become aware of Him surrounding […]

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An Act of Faith

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“To put an end to something is an act of faith not an act of disloyalty.”  Trish Miller, the new Mid- Atlantic Cooperative Baptist Fellowship coordinator, said these words over a lunch meeting with other CBF pastors.  Her words were unexpected.  What was a regular conversation about denominational life became what Eugene Peterson calls “a […]

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