Tag: the color of God

Before God Was White: The Rumblings of a Race-less Theology

.Reading time 5 minutes.

“God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ~ John 4.24, NRSV Halloween is over and yet, it seems nearly impossible to remove the mask of whiteness from the face of God.  Now a spooky, to be avoided, death- wielding deity, this socially colored white God has it in […]

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If God were black

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“Wishing He I served were black,  Thinking then it would not lack Precedent of pain to guide it,  Let who would or might deride it,  Surely then this flesh would know Yours had borne a kindred woe. Lord I fashion dark gods too,  Daring even to give you Dark despairing features where,  Crowned with dark […]

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When We Color God In

.Reading time 5 minutes.

“Your way was through the sea, your path, through the mighty waters; yet your footprints were unseen.” ~ Psalm 77.19, NRSV There is a saying: “God moves in mysterious ways.”  The phrase suggests that God does act in the world but that the plans and purposes of God’s actions are unknown.  The psalmist tells us […]

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