On Aug. 13, 2017, a group of white nationalists headed to Charlottesville, NC, to protest the removal of a Confederate statue. Marching out of America’s history of racist ideology with tiki torches and chants of “Jews will not replace us,” … Continue reading History or His Story
Telling the truth always costs something. It’s never free, even if it does bring liberation. In the United States, our collective majority will gloss over the realities of systemic racism and misogyny point to a truth that can be too … Continue reading Sometimes Liberation Comes through Offense
As I write this, I’m looking at the last page of the 2022 calendar that has hung over my desk all year. Put out by the Equal Justice Initiative, the calendar marks every single day with a reminder of some … Continue reading Set in Stone
“The earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him.” Psalms 24:1 NLT It is wonderful to be back from my sabbatical and engaging with you amazing readers again just in time … Continue reading *There Will Always Be Room: God’s Blessings in Unorthodox Places
Is America filled to capacity or just selective regarding who we can house? Is there fear of becoming outnumbered by foreign guests and those who don’t look like us? And who is this us? I lived in Atlanta for seven … Continue reading Do You Have Any Vacancies?
Supremacy is often masked as patriotism then slapped with the label Christian. No clearer is this seen than in the Great Replacement Theory (GRT), a “dark and extreme ideology” which essentially says that nonwhites are replacing white people and white … Continue reading Theological Consequences of GRT
There is an evil game being played on a large percentage of the American populace. The thing about this game is that it has potentially deadly consequences. Many “conservative” Christians in America have been sucked into this game of “us” versus “them.” It is a … Continue reading From the ‘Great Replacement’ to the Great Commandment
“…And your life doesn’t change by the man who’s elected.” This line from an Avett Brothers song released in 2009 called Head Full of Doubt hits me every time. Was there a time I unconsciously believed this? How many people … Continue reading The Rights and Responsibilities of Voting
In 1857, as Oregon’s White legislators crafted their State’s Constitution, they discovered that restricting the vote to White citizens only, as they intended to do, posed a tricky wordsmithing problem. The Oregon Statesman printed the transcript of the entire Constitutional … Continue reading “Who is White?” Oregon’s 1857 Constitutional Convention
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