An Act of Faith

“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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How Race Changes Who You Really Are

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”      ~ Danielle LaPorte God tells us who we are because only God knows who we are to become.  More than our parents, our Creator knows us intimately.  In fact, the psalmist says this of God’s creative ability: “For it was […]

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Putting Down the Baton

In recent weeks, I’ve changed the name of the blog from The Daily Race to the Race-less Gospel.  After more than two years of writing on race and its progeny in attempt to place race under the scrutiny of sacred Scripture, I discerned that I’ve finished the race.  In fact, I was finished when I began. […]

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The Hardest Commandment

“‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’  He said to them, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’  This the greatest and first commandment.  And a second it like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’  On these […]

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Except Me

3 Soon Daniel distinguished himself above all the other presidents and satraps because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king planned to appoint him over the whole kingdom. 4 So the presidents and the satraps tried to find grounds for complaint against Daniel in connection with the kingdom. But they could find no grounds for complaint […]

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