Faith seeking understanding– without race
What could the Church in North America do if it put its hands together across cultures, if it desegregated its pews and pulpits, if it reflected the changing community outside its doors? Who would we become and what witness could we offer the world if we chose our baptismal identity in Christ over and against […]
Read More“Calls are essentially questions. They aren’t questions you necessarily need to answer outright; they are questions to which you need to respond, expose yourself and kneel before. You don’t want an answer you can put in a box and set on a shelf. You want a question that will become a chariot to carry you […]
Read MoreHow did the invisible, immortal and eternal God become a blonde haired, blue eyed socially colored white man? Who approved of this gross social reduction and theological diminishing of the Divine? And why do we continue to go along with it? Why do we worship whiteness as if the God of the Christian faith? Why do […]
Read Moremis·rep·re·sen·ta·tion/ˌmisreprəzenˈtāSH(ə)n/, Noun 1. the action or offense of giving a false or misleading account of the nature of something When we call ourselves racial beings, socially colored black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige people, we misrepresent our Creator. God is not a racial being or a Racial Being, a supreme among supremes, defined or confined […]
Read More“For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us.” ~ Ephesians 2.14, NRSV There are those who say that it is impossible to put race behind us, that there is “No Such Place as ‘Post- Racial’ […]
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The Raceless Gospel 