Post- racial. Post- racial? Are you serious? Is it really possible to put race behind us? Just how is that going to happen? We shake our heads and shoo away the thought. I cannot say what I cannot see and have you seen the news lately? Do you know our history? I do not see […]
… for they will see God.” Unlike most persons I talk to, I think about race in order to discern ways to never think about it again. I talk about race in order to eradicate it from conversations about human identity and the ways in which we relate to each other. I assert that we […]
“I refuse to be intimidated by reality anymore. What is reality? Nothing but a collective hunch?” ~ Lily Tomlin “Seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization.” ~ Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek “All the world is window. No material is opaque. If we are willing to see– people, circumstances, situations, relationships– […]
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” ~ Galatians 2.19-20, NRSV We call ourselves baptized […]
Name ___________________________ Date _____________ 1. As a Christian, I believe in the social construct of race and that its power and influence are both natural and thereby inherent, both divine and consequently, supreme. True or False? 2. As a Christian, I believe that the social construct of race is reflective of the image of […]