For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“There’s a certain learned passivity about the spiritual life that is hard to program and hard to make popular. People who give leadership in spiritual direction, the good ones, that’s basically what they’re doing: they’re trying to train us and teach us how not to be in control of our lives; to enter into what […]
Read MoreWe talk about race all the time. It is the thought that is on the forefront of our minds and the word that is on the tip of our tongues. When something bad happens, we say, “Race did it.” When something bad happens, we say, “Race did it.” According to our conversations and life’s aspirations, […]
Read More“For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.” ~ Romans 12.3, NRSV Race has two extremes when it comes to identity: […]
Read More“Hitler’s dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.” ~ Alan Bullock, British historian and author “Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.” ~ Ephesians 5.11 Among other things, I would describe race as an “unfruitful work of darkness.” It is a work that […]
Read More“Because Jesus Christ is the focal point for everything that is said about the Christian gospel, it is necessary to to investigate the meaning of his person and work in light of the black perspective. It is one thing to assert that he is the essence of the Christian gospel and quite another to specify […]
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The Raceless Gospel 