For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“Power/ Power, Lord, Power/ Power, Lord/ Holy Ghost, power/ Power, Lord, Holy Ghost, power/ Power, Lord.” This was the call-and-response agreement I grew up with, that the only power a believer should want was that offered by the Holy Ghost. And you had to ask for it, wait or tarry for it. It was not […]
Read MoreThe Raceless Gospel Podcast, now in its seventh season, offers listeners proof of a raceless future with “The Evidence of Things Unseen.” Sewing song, history, and personal memory together, this is a communal crafting of collective liberation. Each episode serves as a pedagogical, healing tool and a form of Afrofuturism, stitching together past, present, and […]
Read MoreThe future of believing is for imaginaries. Christian faith traditions bound by contextless traditions and visions of yesteryear should be seen from the rearview mirror. Because if we are going to make progress on Howard Thurman’s question posed in Jesus and the Disinherited: “Why is it that Christianity seems impotent to deal radically, and therefore effectively, […]
Read More“Martin, don’t let anybody ever tell you you’re not a Somebody.” It’s Martin Luther King Jr.’s foundational childhood story. His grandmother instilled a core belief in his own worth, which remains a critical teaching in the African American community. Somebodiness was popularized by King but dates to chattel slavery. “The essence of ante-bellum black religion […]
Read MoreAmerica was never a group project. In fact, in practice, the country acted independently of those indigenous to Turtle Island and created laws to ensure that Africans and African Americans could not contribute. This democratic project remains restricted to a particular demographic: men racialized as white. There have always been competing visions of inclusion, unity […]
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