Mar 29, 2021 | comfort, Jesus, Lent
I’m not interested in your pain having purpose, my Friend, only in the space to grieve what has been done to you. Let no one call these harrowing days a hallowing. The broken flesh is not a fruit to harvest. The tortured earth is not a fortune to reap. The...
Jun 17, 2020 | church, justice, racism
The white Church is long overdue to acknowledge and repent of its theological fostering of, financial contribution to & gain from, continued complicity and silence in the face of racism. Long overdue. The work of acknowledgment is, I suggest, the preliminary work...
Jun 14, 2020 | blessing, courage, justice, prayer, racism
Stay awhile, O Stranger, for the night has been long and cruel and our souls are not yet wrung dry from weeping. Stay awhile, O Stranger, for the fires are raging on cultic altars built to sacrifice precious fruit to ravenous gods. Stay awhile, O Stranger, for the day...
Jun 17, 2017 | Jesus, racism, theodicy
I cannot sit at your clean white feet waiting for the blue skies of eternity while there is white-induced hell on earth. I cannot pray to your sweet white face or repeat your white savior fairytales that twist hope with capitalism and manifest destiny. I cannot preach...
Mar 9, 2017 | comfort, justice, Lent, prayer
Turn away from my prayers, O God, but do not neglect to bend your ear to the prayers of those who mourn. Listen and be convicted, O LORD, by the prayers of those to whom the world is unjust and unforgiving. Let your heart be broken and healed again by the prayers of...
