“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? […]

Take Me to the Water Offers a Raceless Gospel to the Segregated Church

November 9, 2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Take Me to the Water”: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church is the newest release from Nurturing Faith Books and marks a turning point for the raceless gospel. Take Me to the Water offers a critical look at baptism, the rite of passage meant to signify new birth, and the segregation of […]

From Blog to Book: “Take Me to the Water” Will Be Released in November

September 30, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

I began this blogging journey in March of 2011 and a few days ago, I submitted edits for the proof of my first book, Take Me to the Water: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church. I should have told you sooner but I was kept away by writing deadlines and check […]

Do you have plans for October 27th?

August 31, 2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

I love it when a plan comes together, except I never had one. Proclaiming The Raceless Gospel is my calling and that’s not something I could have dreamed up. Yet, I can see how it could all lead up to this present moment. What began as a daily blog, The Daily Race, more than ten […]

Breaking all the rules of race

October 4, 2013.Reading time 4 minutes.

I’m feeling rebellious this morning, like something new and necessary should be done. I am not interested in contributing to this American society as it has been but would rather pursue what God says can be– not only for me but for all those who would leave race behind. I am tired of living life afraid of what I think […]