Your Black friends are asking for dignity and empathy, not words and feelings — I saw enormous pain this weekend in #Buffalo. I saw weeping and fury and despair and the dull feeling that comes after having had to feel too many things too much for too long. It’s a breaking point. I have my Black siblings asking us — asking me — why…

American Evangelicals cannot escape their foundation — Way back long time ago when the dinosaurs roamed the earth and looked wistfully at the ark Noah was building that was too small for them, I was reading Christian apologetics through the ministry of Josh McDowell. While we can have disagreements with some of his recent observations about systemic…

It’s never right for white people to jut into Black conversations — Recently . . . well, it seems to be a very common occurrence, and becoming more common — someone decided that it’s time to have a Real Talk about Race and Justice, and they dragged me into it to support their side because for some reason they believe there is…

Bring change down to your level — It’s hard sometimes, you know? You work hard, you take time to seek out understanding, you make the effort to connect, you try to understand. You read, you think, you pray, you hope. You think that you’re doing good and also doing well. And then sometimes you just come up…

Sometimes silence is better — You know how you can say one thing but you’re talking about another thing? That’s the subtext. Let me say this to my wyte friends: There is the concept of “wyte innocence” that you might not be aware of. I know I’ve talked about it before in this space and…

This is not the Jesus you are looking for — This post is kinda inside baseball for those who identify in some sense as “Christian.” And it’s my opinion/observation. But I have to say, you cannot understand Christ and Christianity unless you see it from the position of the oppressed. Jesus is not Lord of empire. Jesus is not Lord…

For most people, “deconstruction” is a good thing — I’m seeing a lot of this word and this process being mentioned in the Interwebs lately. And a lot of it seems to be a combination of nonsense and fearmongering and charges that “deconstruction” leads to disbelief and falling away. Well, let’s talk about that. “Deconstruction” is usually mentioned in…

We can be supremely confident but be terribly mistaken — I’ve been in Christian circles since the days when my years were numbered in the single digits. …