Posts Tagged ‘Racial Reconciliation’
Dear Church, I Write to Share a Recipe for Gumbo!
Dear Church, Given America’s polarized divisions, it’s time to make gumbo! As a proud native of New Orleans, I have absolutely no reservation in sharing that gumbo is my favorite…
Read MoreDear Church, I Can’t Hear You
Dear Church, Hello! Are you there? A social awakening is happening outside the walls of your well-constructed edifices. Do you not see it? Your people are hungry for change, yet…
Read MoreDear Church, God Bless America
Unclench your fists. Hold out your hands. Take mine. Let us hold each other. Thus is God’s Glory Manifest. “Epiphany,” Madeleine L’Engle Dear Church, God bless America? Really? Tragically, our…
Read MoreDear Church, The 2020 Census will have a lasting Impact
Dear Church, By now you’ve heard that the 2020 Census will determine how much federal funding each community will get for healthcare, schools, housing, food assistance, and so much more.…
Read MoreDear Church, Do You Serve a God Who Sees?
I write to you not as a theologian but as a parishioner, a follower, and a friend. I acknowledge that while the “church” is made up of each of us;…
Read MoreDear Church, The Virus Attacking the Body of Christ
Dear Church, I am writing to you, sheltering in place with my family, from my home in Washington, D.C. in the midst of the 2020 Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has…
Read MoreDear Church, Make Room for Lament
Dear Church, I sit and write this letter in the confines of my home as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep through the entire world. If you wake up every…
Read MoreDear Church, Resist Righteously
Dear Church, I am a righteous resistor. There are a number of passages that could relate to Black History Month, to the struggles that people of color and the marginalized…
Read MoreDear Church, Practice the Gospel
Dear Church, I’m not a local to New Orleans. I have lived here almost 6 years now, but it’s not my native city, it’s not the culture in which I…
Read MoreDear Church, Listen Beyond Your Racial Identity
I remember being perplexed five years ago by images I saw on the news of civil unrest in Ferguson, MO following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed…
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