The Raceless Gospel: An Embodied Homiletic for a Disembodied Christianity

The Raceless Gospel is part proclamation, part embodied praxis. The integration of physical engagement with belief strengthens my conviction that we are all God’s children and race is not a genealogical indicator. Feet to pavement, I am convinced following Jesus doesn’t lead us to a church building but to bodies marginalized, racialized, hyper-surveilled and criminalized. Were […]

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Making Future Arrangements: A Raceless Gospel for Ex- Colored People

Race lacks the dimensions to measure the actual self and the linguistic capacity to affirm all human beings as co-equal. A minority- majority/ inferior- superior orientation, the makers of this pseudo- scientific delusion recreated human beings as colors: beige, that is mixed race, black, brown, red, yellow, and white or simpler still, white people and […]

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A Love Offering: When Writing Requires That You Pay Through the Nose

As the fifth season of The Raceless Gospel podcast ends, I look at my hands and wonder how it came to this. How did it end up costing so much?  I’m not talking about dollars and cents, but something pricier. I had to tell more truths than I budgeted for. Each episode was taxing and seemingly asking […]

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The Search for Common Ground Continues: The Journey to Somebodiness with Howard Thurman

From the militant steps of Harriet Tubman to the mystical pace of Howard Thurman, these ancestors balance the raceless gospel out. Strident and deeply spiritual, they bear witness to self- emancipation lived out, finding common ground within and then walking it out. Howard Thurman offers a vision and a model of “radical inclusion” lived out. […]

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