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Why So Few African-Americans at Reformed Churches…and will it change?
Yesterday, John Frame’s page on Facebook posted this question; Why are there so few African-Americans and Latinos in the PCA? Or in any Reformed church, for that matter? This is, I think, an important...
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The Little Things: thoughts on race, compliance and subtle discrimination
I don’t usually write on issues of race and for good reason: it tends to garner heated debate, polarized perspectives and people talking past one another. In “post-racial” America, its tough to talk...
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Some honest thoughts on #BlackLivesMatter, the church and real reconciliation
I actually started drafting this post some time ago, like a few months ago. When I first started the draft, it was a really tough post for me to write because it involves some issues that are near and...
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Another look at racial tension and stuff that divides Christ’s church
There’s been a lot of talk about race in the church of late, the need to talk about it, the need for reconciliation, the need to get gatherings to talk about it so that we can be reconciled, the need...
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Race, grace, and the work of the church
In the midst of this Labor Day weekend, I was reminded of a piece I wrote for my church’s newsletter last year after a trip to St. Louis and thought I’d share it here. Normally my Labor Day weekends...
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On conservatives and race: do black lives really matter to the right?
In my last post, I addressed an issue of priorities that drives politically conservative Christians to not only be drawn to the GOP but also feel compelled to endorse it’s candidate to uphold...
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The church in the age of MLK: the culture and us
Thanks to the memory section on Facebook, an article written by Dr. Anthony Bradley popped up from two years that I shared titled The KKK, Selma, and Southern Christianity. It was a raw reflection from...
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Some questions I’m asking while off to my white evangelical church
Yes, you heard that right, my white church. Why not just the church? In fact, I bet the title alone will set up some keen anticipation for me to address everything that’s wrong with the white church...
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Another question: on being woke and Christian
I’ve been pecking away little by little on a follow up to my last post, Some Questions I’m Asking While Off to My White Evangelical Church. It occurred to me that there are some more questions I’ve...
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My step back from the hostility of racial reconciliation
Recently, I penned a post, Some Questions I’m Asking While Off to my White Evangelical Church that drew a bit of attention. To be honest, it was a post that had been stewing for several weeks and one...
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In defense of color-blindness (sort of)
There is an impetus today to reject color-blindness and the reasons are quite valid. If someone says, “I don’t see color” or worse, “God doesn’t see color” rebuke is the natural impulse since God...
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Some more questions and a few thoughts on the church, race and social justice
A while back, I penned some thoughts about questions I had as it relates to issues of race and the church found here. I specifically directed my questions at those who feel like the cause of battling...
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The thing about separate gatherings
For the past week or so, I’ve watched the internet ablaze over a special gathering of women of color sponsored by Legacy at the TGCW18 conference. (see their write up about it here.) The meeting is...
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Some thoughts on race and “whiteness”
The past few days, I’ve been observing the kerfuffle over the Sparrow Conference and the interview delivered by Ekemini Uwan. She spoke boldly about the need for white women to divest in whiteness by...
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Some more questions I’m asking while off to my white evangelical church
A couple of years ago, I penned a piece, Some Questions I’m Asking While Off to My White Evangelical Church, that got a bit of attention. The piece was the product of growing concerns I had regarding...
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Some thoughts on the church and racial reconciliation efforts
I recently got into a twitter exchange over the issue of church’s hosting of a racial reconciliation conference, panel discussion, etc. The thrust of the argument was that it puts a focus on the...
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The problem with white evangelicalism
You may be thinking from the title that this is going to be one of those posts that bashes white evangelicalism. After all, there has been a plethora of pieces over the past few years that have done...
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When ideas have feet, we can see how CRT moves
I’ll be honest right from the start, I’m growing weary of hearing about Critical Race Theory and the debates swirling around it. I think far too much time is spent on either debunking or supporting...
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Can we only imagine? on race and ethnicity in the eschaton
Recently, I’ve seen a couple of tweets that have caused me to reflect on how things will be in the New Heavens and New Earth. A while ago, I saw one tweet about black bodies retaining the same in the...
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Because its really about people supremacy
While scrolling through Twitter yesterday, I got wind of the kerfuffle in Los Angeles where City Council president, Nury Martinez, was caught on tape in a private meeting where she and her colleagues...
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