Abolishing Racism: Creating a Future without Race

December 31, 2024.Reading time 1 minute.

You’re invited! Tell them I sent you. It’s a one- day conference, a virtual event, and an opportunity to imagine a world without racism. My colleagues and I all think that it requires a future without race. In a world where the concept of “race” continues to permeate our societies and shape our perceptions, the […]

“Take Me to the Water”: The Raceless Gospel for a Washed- Up Church

February 29, 2024.Reading time 20 minutes.

Starlette, a baptism evangelist and minor poet—sent to you neither by her own will nor human manipulations but by way of troubled waters, moved by the Spirit groaning due to a prolonged laboring for a new humanity, for a “kin-dom” that is coming. Asking parenthetically, “Why aren’t we reborn yet? Why aren’t we there yet? […]

If you have ears to hear, justice is calling

July 30, 2022.Reading time 12 minutes.

Did you hear that? Do you feel that? Something is shifting. The American empire and its capitalist machinery that pushes its citizens to work themselves to death, to keep the wheels turning. It’s coming undone and to a screeching halt for some. “The Great Resignation,” wherein persons up and quit their jobs without a safety […]

Eight Readings for Advent

December 14, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

To date, I have published 1,040 posts for this blog. It is my largest body of work and the race-less gospel is my life’s devotion to God. It is a sacred charge and a holy vision that I have been given. I can take no credit for the ability to see beyond the machinery of […]

The Race System

July 28, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

I wonder when we will put the two together– race and racism. Theirs is a partnership; the two go hand- in- hand as you cannot have one without the other. In fact, one cannot function without the other. Racism is not the problem. Racism is the way that the system of race works. Racism is […]