For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“Ain’t that the truth.” It’s an expression I heard often as a child. It was said to emphasize what someone knows to be the case based on lived experience. I sometimes wonder what foundational lies would come crashing down in our world if the truth be told. If all the dyads got together— black/ white, […]
Read MoreI have been leaving toxic environments since I was twelve years old. Prepared for the coming of Jesus as a new convert, I’m surprised my list now includes the segregated North American church. I leave stores when I am followed around under the suspicion of shoplifting. I leave in the middle of cyclical conversations because […]
Read MoreThe raceless gospel is going to the Wild Goose Festival in Union Grove, North Carolina this summer. Described as a family reunion, the gathering is “a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice.” *** I consider myself a race abolitionist, a dignity advocate, a community- building protagonist, a baptism evangelist. Through the work and witness […]
Read MoreWade in the water Wade in the water, children Wade in the water God’s gonna’ trouble the water Except we get in the water, and it doesn’t seem to trouble us that the North American church is still segregated, that there is a Black and White Church, that we remain divided over American chattel slavery, […]
Read More“Take Me to the Water”: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church is the newest release from Nurturing Faith Books and marks a turning point for the raceless gospel. Take Me to the Water offers a critical look at baptism, the rite of passage meant to signify new birth, and the segregation of […]
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