For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” ~The Revelation 22.13, NRSV Of the many things that I dislike about race, one is its use in the predeterminations of a person’s life. Before the plot begins, race has already finished the story. It is the same […]
Read MoreHow does believing in race make us better Christians? How do its prejudices and stereotypes help us to love our neighbor, to welcome the stranger, to take care of the orphan and the widow? What does race really do for us? What does it strengthen our faith in? Thomas Dixon Jr., a Southern Baptist Minister […]
Read MoreRace allows you and I to look away, to not look at ourselves fully or completely. We do not have to face ourselves alone and a part from its insecurities that make us feel safe. We want race to tell us what we see and who/ what/ when/ where/ why we should ignore. We need race to do for us […]
Read MoreIf we love persons according to race, if our love is racially prescribed and motivated, a love that is demonstrated according to the social coloring of skin, then we do not love as God loves. We do not love with the love of Christ. I would go so far as to say that we do […]
Read MoreThis morning, I attended a remarkable lecture at Wesley Theological Seminary where Dr. Joerg Rieger, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, the Wendland-Cook Endowed Professor of Constructive Theology at SMU Perkins School of Theology and author of several books to include Christ and Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times, served as the guest lecturer […]
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The Raceless Gospel 