Belonging in Your Skin

November 30, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

“She is so comfortable in her own skin.” It is an idiom used to describe persons who are confident and have a clear understanding of self and abilities, especially when interacting with other persons. They are comfortable with being who they are. While it is a familiar expression, I find it a strange one. It suggests […]

Plain and simple: It’s Jesus or race

October 13, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

“His (Jesus’) life must mean the death of race in us.” | Brian Bantum, The Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial World It’s not hard. Letting go of race is not difficult. I know that it is not something that we would consider and that you didn’t ask for assistance with. […]

The undivided body of Christ

September 30, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

Our reconciler, Christ is the middle man. Our sacrifice, his body brings us together. Jesus shortens the distance between us and God. He paves the way, makes the way, clearing up any confusion about the way that we should go. His cross is our signpost. His hands pinned to a cross say, “This way. This […]

I doubt it: Questioning the credibility of race

September 24, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Here is a confession: I am not who race says that I am. I will not be who race says that I will be. I can go where race says that no “like me” has ever gone before. Race does not open or close doors. We do. I am so tired of this race, this […]

A Race-less Vocabulary List

September 11, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

Race is not prescriptive. Race causes us to lose sight of each other quite literally. We are missing out on love, healing, relationship, truth… all because we cannot see each other. We speak as if race has always been, as if we will cease to exist, turn into dust, fade into oblivion if we stop […]

The Raceless Gospel

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