Dear Christian Church, As I look at the racial pain all around and the way it is portrayed in the national media, it saddens me. The tone...

In the ancient world, names had more significant meaning. Your name could define your divine purpose. It could describe how you would be...

It is the final weeks of summer in 2017, and the racial tensions have flared up anew.  This time in Charlottesville, Virginia where...

On November 4, 2008, the 56th quadrennial United States presidential election was held. A changing of the guard was taking place....

The Bible Study I wrote on healing race will result in two very different possible outcomes.  One option will be to open frank, raw,...

Growing up black in America comes with a healthy dose of fear. Looking back I don’t know exactly at what age the veil of innocence was...

MIT grad student Joy Buolamwini was working with facial recognition software when she noticed a problem: the software didn’t recognize...

Tonto and the Lone Ranger were riding through a canyon together when all of a sudden both sides were filled with Indian warriors on...

As a part of the publication process with Concordia Publishing House any work needs to under go a doctrinal review process. The process...

For all those who have been waiting for my Bible Study on One Nation Under God: Healing Race In America. It is coming out March 4, 2017....

I am going to delve into another sensitive area in this blog post.  I grew up hearing from black people that we don’t have the ability to...

I was born in 1965 in the deep south right at the epicenter of the civil rights movement.  At the tender age of four my uncle and I...

“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But…the good...

I honestly thought I was done writing on race for a while.  Naïve enough to believe that maybe things were getting better.  And then like...

During this summer of racial tension. I have been trying to point out that our society has a problem. A lot of this has been done with...

“Reconciliation means working together to correct the legacy of past injustice.” Nelson Mandela This past week two high profile players...

I have resisted writing this post for various reasons…the question raised “Don’t all lives matter?” It is an offshoot of the Black Lives...

Until You Walk in My Shoes, You Don’t Understand Me You have heard this quote before, “You can’t judge me until you walk a mile in my...

African Americans are suffering from an identity crisis. It dawned on me recently how much I hate the lure of ancestry.com’s new DNA...