Post- Racial America: Why It’s So Hard To Say

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 […]

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“Give Me Your Eyes”: How Race Defiles Us

… 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 […]

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Seeing is Saying

“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– […]

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Never Be The Same

“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 […]

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Race Pop Quiz

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 […]

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