Counting to Ten: The Raceless Gospel celebrates its tenth anniversary!

February 17, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Most folks wouldn’t touch race with a ten foot pole but I feel drawn to it. I started this blog and this journey with you ten years ago on an Ash Wednesday. Back then, it was called The Daily Race. Name changed and seasons changed but I have kept on writing. The words have only […]

Race and our humanity– not even close

January 13, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

I am not searching for myself. I certainly will not find her in a crayon box. I did not wait my entire life to discover that I am a color. The creation narrative recorded in Genesis is much more meaningful, spiritual and tells me that God breathed into the first human being and he became […]

I need another word

December 3, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

We need new words. I need new words, ones that roll off my tongue. The colored ones get caught in my throat. New being in Jesus Christ, these racialized ones don’t work for me. They didn’t go down easily. They didn’t stick to me. I cannot make them a part of me, just take […]

Plain and simple: It’s Jesus or race

October 13, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

“His (Jesus’) life must mean the death of race in us.” | Brian Bantum, The Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial World It’s not hard. Letting go of race is not difficult. I know that it is not something that we would consider and that you didn’t ask for assistance with. […]

I doubt it: Questioning the credibility of race

September 24, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Here is a confession: I am not who race says that I am. I will not be who race says that I will be. I can go where race says that no “like me” has ever gone before. Race does not open or close doors. We do. I am so tired of this race, this […]