Race Fact #33: Still Made in God’s Image

August 16, 2013.Reading time less than 1 minute.

No matter our understanding or interpretation of what it means to be made in God’s image, whether the meaning be that we share a physical resemblance, serve as God’s representative on earth and/ or possess spiritual and/ or mental faculties similar to that of our Creator, all of humanity bears God’s image. The eyes of […]

Greater

June 19, 2013.Reading time 1 minute.

“For the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.” ~ First John 4.4, NRSV Greater. Greater is God who is in me than race that is in the world. Greater is God who is in me than racism that is in the world. Greater is God who […]

To Be Known

February 4, 2013.Reading time 2 minutes.

“There is no deep knowing of God without a deep knowing of self and no deep knowing of self without a deep knowing of God.” ~ John Calvin “Observe all men; thy self most.” ~ Benjamin Franklin “And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father…” ~ First Chronicles 28.9, NRSV How do […]

I Just Had to Say It

November 19, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

I couldn’t say black or white or red or yellow or beige or brown anymore. I just couldn’t refer to people by social colors, pretending that their skin offered some innate, inherent meaning, that it suggested the manner in which they should be viewed and subsequently treated. I didn’t believe in race and there was […]

Race and the Lie of the Self- Made Person

August 28, 2012.Reading time 3 minutes.

“It is he who made us and not we ourselves.” ~Psalm 100.3 There are no self- made persons. We, as human beings, do not have that ability neither will we ever develop it. This capacity to be self- existent, to have one’s origin be one’s own hands can only be attributed to God. While this […]

The Raceless Gospel

Tag: raceless theology