by Starlette Thomas | Jul 12, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
COVID-19 wiped out the desire for a beach body for many of us in 2020. Our priorities, centered around physical and economic survival, did not lead us to focus on personal appearance as athletic apparel and sweatpants replaced dry-cleaned clothing. We all became couch...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 6, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
A Mexican proverb states, “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” It reminded me of another that I learned from my mother. Speaking of an unsolved murder mystery, she told me, “The ground doesn’t talk.” But it does. Blood cries from the ground, from...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 28, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
“I quit.” It’s what at least 649,000 retail workers said in April. Almost 3% of U.S. workers quit. “My life isn’t worth a dead-end job,” 23-year-old Aislinn Potts of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, told The Washington Post recently. While some employers have raised their...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 21, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
“I don’t want to do this. I don’t want to practice a Christian faith that says this is all there is to belief.” I said this in a conversation with a Christian leader, but I don’t think he heard me. It has been said for years but much of the North American church was...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 14, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
Instructions. I don’t read them. I’m a member of the group that likes to look at the box and then figure out how it all goes together. I’m sure there is a name, a label for that. Speaking of which, I don’t read labels. I am not counting calories. I’m a budding...
