I grew up in the South. I was born in Pensacola, Florida but spent most of my teenage years in Foley, Alabama with my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. We didn’t have a street or a road; instead, we lived on trail. It was named Thomas Trail because our family owned the land at the end of […]
“If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews, as to the law a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the […]
“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God– not because of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” ~Ephesians 2.8, […]
“See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have come to fullness in him, who is the head of every ruler […]
Race rules in America. It governs our thoughts, actions and social interactions. Almost everything we do is because of or in response to race. We trust race and its quick, go- to guide based on the social coloring of skin. Its stereotypes save us time and the energy of getting to know persons first. Its prejudices […]