The Raceless Gospel

Faith seeking understanding– without race

Didn’t you promise?

November 24, 2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Cross my heart and hope to die. Stick a needle in my eye.” Our promises use to mean something. As children, we took our commitment– no matter how trivial or time- sensitive– seriously. We meant what we said with our little mouths about a rumor we had heard or the score of last night’s game. […]

Pray the questions

October 26, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

As the associate pastor at my church, one of my responsibilities is to provide the pastoral prayer every Sunday. I thought, “I love talking to God. This will be easy, maybe even fun.” Oh, I was so naive, so unaware, so out of touch with the rhythm of my own prayer life. But, I was […]