The Raceless Gospel Podcast Offers Listeners a Respite from White-Body Supremacy

September 30, 2025.Reading time 2 minutes.

(Credit: Starlette Thomas) The Raceless Gospel podcast offers listeners a respite. “Stay Woke?” is an inquiry for the sleepy-headed who are tired of the narrative of white-body supremacy and refuse to give it any more energy. It’s not a nudge to the groggy, but an expression of deep awareness. It is a commentary on one’s ability […]

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

October 23, 2024.Reading time 9 minutes.

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 […]

The Gospel in Progress

September 16, 2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

Have you seen Jesus? God in the neighborhood, God on the move, Jesus is never just in our corner of the world. Jesus is God all over the place. Sight unseen by his latest disciples and yet seen in our neighbor and the stranger’s face. Our vision of him is a work in progress. We […]

The Raceless Gospel Podcast Does Bodywork

July 19, 2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

From an initial blog post more than ten years ago to a podcast, I have written words that have created a world. Each word is foundational, building upon the other and I cannot wait to stand on top of the rubble of race. To be sure, this raceless world, it is a “kin-dom” coming, the […]

Season 2 of the Raceless Gospel podcast is coming this summer!

June 17, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

The doors of the church are open, open on Sundays but closed on most others. Closed mouth to some conversations. “No comment.” Closed eyes to some views. “See no evil.” Closed off to some bodies that we recreate as “other” as if a human being can be something other than that. “Hands off. Don’t touch […]