Our world relies mostly on the external for interpretation, meaning and understanding. We know what we see and we believe it when we see it. We judge a person based on appearance; we look them over and surmise that we have them all figured out when all we have done is ascribe to them the […]
“We are unfinished creatures– longing, reaching, stretching towards fulfillment. We express these desires for completion in prayer. Prayers articulate our seeking after the best. Prayers give voice to aspiration towards the highest. Everything that is distinctly human gets formulated in prayers: our pathos, our nobility, our creativity. Also interestingly, everything that is disreputable in us– […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]